Deana Lawson – An Aperture Monograph Archives 140 colour plates

140 colour plates

mountainous region

The result is one large work in which the complexity of things converge: the artist himself

setting forth a chain reaction of feedback loops in which pictorial space is filled and mutated through collaboration with and against the limits of imaging technologies

they become part of a continual aesthetic exploration

Deana Lawson – An Aperture Monograph Archives 140 colour platesDeana Lawson is one of the most intriguing photographers of her generation. Over the last ten years, she has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals. Using medium and large format cameras, Lawson works with models she meets in the United States and on travels in the Caribbean and Africa to construct arresting, highly structured, and deliberately theatrical scenes