LaToya Ruby Frazier : And from the Coaltips a Tree Will Rise / Et des terrils in arbre s'elevera

Frazier, Latoya Ruby (PHT); Gielen, Denis; Prévost, Jean-marc; Leroy, Joanna

ISBN 10: 2930368705 / ISBN 13: 9782930368702

Verlag: MAC'S Grand Hornu, 2017

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 29936063-n

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Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) grew up in Braddock, PA, a borough in the American Rust Belt ravaged by the steel-industry crisis that hit the US during the Reagan administration. In this former bastion of the steel industry, the artist was raised in her Afro-American family, whose story she told in The Notion of Family. Her 2016 residency at Grand-Hornu allowed her to pursue her work on postindustrial society in Belgium, turning her camera to the Borinage, a mining region whose intense activity in the 19th century was diminished by a series of crises that led to the closure of the last mine in 1976. Testimonies gathered by Frazier from the former miners and their families have resulted in And from the Coaltips a Tree Will Rise, an extensive collection of portraits, landscapes and still lifes.

Von der hinteren Coverseite: LaToya Ruby Frazier grew up in Braddock, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, at the heart of the Rust Belt. The Bottom refers to the lower, poorest part of the town which is closest to the Edgar Thomson Plant, founded in 1872 by Andrew Carnegie. It was here that aged sixteen, LaToya Ruby Frazier became aware of the need to bear witness to the impact of deindustrialisation on the Afro-American community. She did so by photographing her family through three generations of women (her grandmother, her mother

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Titel: LaToya Ruby Frazier : And from the Coaltips ...
Verlag: MAC'S Grand Hornu
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New