Latoya Ruby Frazier

Bys: Frazier, LaToya Ruby, Gallois, Christophe, Zabunyan, Elvan, et al.

LaToya Ruby Frazier's intimate photographs of working-class families in the former steelworking and coalmining hubs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Borinage, Belgium

Frazier's (born 1982) portraits reflect both a political engagement with and a personal investment in her subject matter. This book presents her seminal series The Notion of a Family, in which she documents three generations of her own family in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, alongside two more recent projects: On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford (2017), made in close collaboration with artist and steelworker Sandra Gould Ford; and Et des terrils un arbre s' l vera (2016-17), made with the people of Mons in Borinage, Belgium, once home to a coalmine.

Following a long tradition of photography as a tool for political activism, Frazier's intimate photographs provide insight into the daily lives of those most affected by the industries' decline.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8867493620
• ISBN13: 9788867493623
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Mousse Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 13.0"