Deana LawsonDeana Lawson, the first scholarly publication on the artist Deana Lawson, surveying fifteen years of her photography, will be published to accompany the first comprehensive museum survey exhibition featuring Lawsons artwork. A singular voice in contemporary photography, Lawson has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of black identities in the African American and African diaspora for over fifteen years. Her work samples

Gerald Laing

Rastafarians or the rude boys of Kingston

to name a few—Bredahl’s portraits arise from a place of introspection and self-scrutiny

Controversial then for its use of colour and refusal to follow the clichéd tropes of photojournalism

Suzanne Joelson and Gary Stephan as the voyeurs and the observed

she entrusts the ensuing spectacle to her camera

Michael Almereyda and former Museum of Modern Art curator

and other natural materials

With an extensive chronology and texts by Ruth Mountaingrove

and additional photographs

Aziz Ansari

depicting the human drama hidden behind objects