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The Encyclopedia of Photography’s Art and History

"Black Life", Deana Lawson (1979)

Black Life

Deana Lawson (1979)

Staged color photographs exploring Black identity, family, and community across a range of domestic, social, and imagined environments throughout the African diaspora.

With contributions from: MoMA (image source); ICP (image source); Whitney Museum of American Art (image source); Tate (image source); High Museum of Art (image source). Suggest an Edit

Black Life

Deana Lawson (1979)

Staged color photographs exploring Black identity, family, and community across a range of domestic, social, and imagined environments throughout the African diaspora.

With contributions from: MoMA (image source); ICP (image source); Whitney Museum of American Art (image source); Tate (image source); High Museum of Art (image source). Suggest an Edit

Binky & Tony Forever, 2009

Family Portrait, 2007

Baby Sleep, 2009

Girls with Oiled Faces, 2004

Mama Goma, Gemena, DR Congo, 2014

Sons of Cush, 2016

The Garden, 2015

Books

upscaled cover image 9781912339983

Deana Lawson

MACK BOOKS, 2021

upscaled cover image 9780935445657

Contact Sheet 154: Corporeal

Light Work, 2009

upscaled cover image 9781597114226

Deana Lawson

Aperture, 2018

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