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Latoya Ruby Frazier : Performing social landscapes
No full textLatoya Ruby Frazier est une artiste américaine d’une trentaine d’années qui œuvre dans les domaines de la photographie, de la vidéo et de la performance. Son travail vise à révéler certaines structures de pouvoir dans la société grâce à la fabrication et à la reconstitution d’images et de situations explicitement problématiques. Ces dernières abordent principalement la question raciale, Latoya Ruby Frazier jouant de son propre genre et de l’ethnicité dans ses œuvres. Ce petit livre d’une cinq..
Blue Ruins: LaToya Ruby Frazier in Two Parts
No full textThis review considers LaToya Ruby Frazier's work in The Notion of Family, LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Silver Eye Center for Photography, September 21– November 18, 2017 and On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford, LaToya Ruby Frazier, The August Wilson Center, September 22– December 31, 2017
LaToya Ruby Frazier
No full textLa photographe LaToya Ruby Frazier est née en 1982 dans la ville ouvrière de Braddock, située à l’est de Pittsburgh, en Pennsylvanie. Une sélection de ses œuvres a été montrée au Mudam entre avril et septembre 2019. Le catalogue de l’exposition reproduit l’intégralité de trois séries importantes : The Notion of Family (2001-2014) ; On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford (2017) ; Et des terrils un arbre s’élèvera (2016-2017). Bilingue (anglais et français), cette monographie ouvre é..
LaToya Ruby Frazier : The Notion of Family
No full text"In this, her first book, LaToya Ruby Frazier offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America’s small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. The work also considers the impact of that decline on the community and on her family, creating a statement both personal and truly political—an intervention in the histories and narratives of the region." -- Publisher's website
Art and Environmental Racism in the United States: Through the Works of LaToya Ruby Frazier, Pope.L, and Mel Chin
No full textThrough the works of LaToya Ruby Frazier, Pope.L, and Mel Chin, this thesis examines the ways in which artists address environmental racism in the United States. Focusing on three locations with majority Black populations and significant toxic hazards, this paper demonstrates artists’ agency to alleviate crises caused by environmental injustice
An Alternative Visual Narrative: LaToya Ruby Frazier\u27s The Notion of Family
No full textLaToya Ruby Frazier’s body of photographic work titled The Notion of Family (2003-2014) explores the toll the steel industry in Braddock, Pennsylvania, took on the black community there. The history of black Braddock is riddled with social, political, racial, economic and environmental hardship spurred on by the steel industry. Frazier intimately chronicles the lives of three generations of women—herself, her mother, and her grandmother—and their place in that history. The alternative visual narrative that Frazier creates commands viewers’ attention in telling a story that has been largely ignored by the American public. This essay contrasts Frazier’s work with that of painter Robert Qualters and photographer Barbara Peacock to assess how her images differ from other efforts to chronicle memory and history in small American towns
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Documenting against erasure : deindustrialization and the camera in the work of LaToya Ruby Frazier
No full texttextAmid contemporary catastrophizing about industry and the practice of photography, American artist LaToya Ruby Frazier began her photographic series Notion of Family (2002 to present) as a means of documenting the effects of economic and environmental decline in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Located nine miles south of Pittsburgh and the site of Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill, the contemporary landscape of Braddock and the experience of its citizens mark a liminal place between the stark abandonment of completely deindustrialized sites and a continued battle with the environmental and social effects of surviving in industry’s wake. By photographing herself, her mother, her grandmother, and cousins and documenting the vicissitudes of her lived experience, Frazier uses the camera to resist real and insidious attempts at the erasure from the landscape and history of Braddock and from photographic discourse. Her work is a complex form of autobiography generated to be both representative of herself and to speak to a larger narrative about the impact of deindustrialization on marginalized communities. She uses the historical tension between absence and presence to make histories, realities and subjectivities present against the cultural and environmental forces striving to render them absent.American Studie
Art is Family, Art Creates Change: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Work on Water
No full textBrittany Kogut, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, U.S.A.
Art is Family, Art Creates Change: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Work on Water
LaToya Ruby Frazier is an African American photographer from Pennsylvania who produces visually engaging work, while also addressing poignant social issues. In her photo essay, Flint is Family, Frazier captures the struggle, the humanity, and a community’s embrace of each other during this man-made crisis on American soil using photography. Frazier fully integrated herself in the lives of Flint residents and was able to aid in making a difference on the ground in Michigan. Frazier, with the help of two local artists, Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan, the brilliant mind of inventor Moses West, and the support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, brought the beginnings of hope and change for the people of Flint. Frazier utilizes her unique skill set in photography to create impactful protest art by intensely focusing her efforts on community, family, and innovation, while creating a mutually dedicated safe space for her subjects to express themselves.
In this paper, I am interested in exploring the deep connections art can have on affecting change in a community, specifically in Frazier\u27s Flint is Family work and how a single artist\u27s influence inspires acts of creativity around her. I want to emphasize the significance of art as an act of protest and how art opens up communication that may not be previously opened without the work of artists. For example, a poster stating Water is Life has a very different impact than a 30-foot billboard photograph with the words Water is Life written in water bottles. Art\u27s presence is undeniable and so is its ability to speak volumes. Researching an artist who is actively working and speaking on her projects and experiences is the main method of investigation for this paper. She is underrepresented, but is not the only black female artist creating change through her art.
Brittany Kogut is a post-baccalaureate student, majoring in art history with a double minor in gender studies and Middle Eastern studies. Her professional goal is to become a Women’s and Gender Studies professor with a specialty in the Middle East, sound knowledge of intersectionality, and how art contributes to these delicate conversations. She will be attending a master\u27s and PhD program after graduation. Brittany has had what one would call an adventurous life. She was a competitive gymnast on the path to the Olympics and a collegiate cheerleader at the University of Kentucky and the University of Arkansas. She then fulfilled the dream of working as a sports reporter. She earned a highly competitive internship at ESPN and achieved this feat through hard work and determination. Through injuries, setbacks, and personal hurdles, Brittany persevered and never gave up on herself and her future. She re-enrolled in college at 37 years old to fight for a better life. She has tirelessly networked at the University of Arkansas Little Rock’s campus while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. She has earned teaching assistant and tutoring positions due to her commitment and abilities, along with multiple scholarships
Artists and the Push for Black People\u27s Access to Healthcare
No full textUsing the works of Latoya Ruby Frazier, Simone Leigh, and Renée Stout, I explore the ways in which healthcare has been made inaccessible for Black Americans. Each chapter explores the impact of inaccessible healthcare and stereotypes, and the choice to opt for traditional alternatives to Western medicine
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