LaToya Ruby Frazier on Lee Friedlander’s Ohio Factory Valley Series
“I can speak through photographs about how I feel about my lived experience in America and pay homage to people who are also everyday working people.”
A photographer finds “healing” in the representation of Black working-class histories.
Photographer and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier sees the legacy of the Black women of America’s working class in Lee Friedlander’s “Ohio Factory Valley” series. Through her personal memories and close observation, these lesser-known photographs become “knockouts” that empower the women they depict.. On the occasion of her timely exhibition “Monuments of Solidarity” at MoMA, Frazier traces the trajectory of documentary photography, from these two inspiring photographs to her approach of collaborative “visual healing.”
Courtesy of: The Museum of Modern Art
