LaToya Ruby Frazier: Limited-Edition Box Set

by LaToya Ruby Frazier

Description
In her first monograph, The Notion of Family (Aperture, 2014), Guggenheim Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier explores the legacy of racism and economic decline in post-industrial American small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Photographing herself, her mother, and her grandmother Ruby, as well as the Braddock community, Frazier’s body of work is a highly personal and politically charged statement about the history of industrial decline and its effect on familial and communal relationships. While acknowledging the history of traditional black-and-white documentary photography, Frazier’s approach serves as an intervention in the histories and narratives of the region, through a multigenerational lens. Momme (Shadow), 2008, depicts the deadpan gaze of the photographer, with Frazier’s mother, a “coauthor, artist, photographer, and subject,” in the foreground, eyes closed and facing out of the frame. The image offers insight into their relationship, which Frazier explains “primarily exists through the process of making images."  In the creation of these collaborative works, Frazier reinforces the idea of art and image-making as a transformative act, a means of resetting traditional power dynamics and narratives, both those of her family and those of the community at large. The limited-edition box set includes an 11-by-14-inch gelatin-silver print ofMomme (Shadow), 2008, as well as a signed copy of The Notion of Family.
Details

First edition hardcover copy of The Notion of Family, accompanied by a Gelatin-Silver Print, presented in a clamshell case
Paper Size: 11 x 14 inches
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered by the artist

About the Artist

LaToya Ruby Frazier (b. 1982, Braddock, Pennsylvania) received her BFA in photography and graphic design in 2004 at Edinboro University, Pennsylvania, and her MFA in 2007 from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, New York. In 2011, Frazier completed the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and shortly thereafter was appointed Critic in Photography at the Yale University School of Art. She has received numerous grants and awards, including a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has been included in exhibitions at major institutions worldwide.

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