Oath
2013
Deana Lawson
American, born 1979
Contemporary Art
Shooting primarily in the United States and the Caribbean, Deana Lawson is inspired by the expression and aesthetics of black cultures worldwide. Using a large-format camera, and working across a variety of photographic traditions—including portraiture, staged scenes, found or appropriated imagery, and vernacular photography such as family albums—she addresses themes of the body, sensuality, community, and spirituality, among others. Lawson’s photographs can be seen as psychological portraits of black subjects in an extended, mythological diasporic family.
- Maker/Artist
- Lawson, Deana
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- Pigment print
- Dimensions
- 40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm) frame: 41 x 51 in. (104.1 x 129.5 cm)
- Departments
- Contemporary Art
- Accession Number
- 2015.6.1
- Credit Line
- William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond, I See Myself in You: Selections from the Collection
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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