拉托亚-鲁比-弗雷泽 摄影师和视频艺术家

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LaToya Ruby Frazier
Photographer and Video Artist | Class of 2015
Capturing the consequences of postindustrial decline for marginalized communities and illustrating how photography can promote dialogue about historical change and social responsibility.


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Title
Photographer and Video Artist
Affiliation
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Age
33 at time of award
Area of Focus
Photography, Moving Image
Website
latoyarubyfrazier.com
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: LaToya Ruby Frazier
Published September 29, 2015
ABOUT LATOYA'S WORK
LaToya Ruby Frazier is a photographer and video artist who uses visual autobiographies to capture social inequality and historical change in the postindustrial age. Informed by documentary practices from the turn of the last century, Frazier explores identities of place, race, and family in work that is a hybrid of self-portraiture and social narrative. The crumbling landscape of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a once-thriving steel town, forms the backdrop of her images, which make manifest both the environmental and infrastructural decay caused by postindustrial decline and the lives of those who continue—largely by necessity—to live amongst it.

The Notion of Family, a series of unflinching black-and-white photographs, shows her mother, grandmother, and the artist herself in a Braddock unmoored by disinvestment and demographic decline. Frazier’s stark portraits underscore the connection between self and physical space and make visible the consequences of neglect and abandonment—unemployment, environmental health crises, and lack of access to services—for Braddock’s historically marginalized working-class African American community. In a photolithograph and silkscreen print series from 2011, entitled Campaign for Braddock Hospital (“Save Our Community Hospital”), Frazier sets up an ironic juxtaposition between upbeat consumer capitalism and the challenges of working people. Images of Braddock from a 2010 Levi Strauss campaign bearing the slogan “Ready to Work” are set in counterpoint to quotes from Braddock residents about the closure of the town’s only hospital—and its principal employer—that same year.

In more recent photographic work, Frazier documents Braddock from the skies in full-color aerial shots that record the extensive transformations of a community after years of economic collapse. Frazier’s uncompromising and moving work illustrates how contemporary photography can open conversations about American history, class structures, and social responsibility.

BIOGRAPHY
LaToya Ruby Frazier received a B.F.A. (2004) from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. (2007) from Syracuse University. She held artist residencies at the Lower Manhattan Culture Council (2009–2010) and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (2010–2011) and was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2013–2014) before assuming her current position as assistant professor in the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Frazier’s work has appeared in numerous exhibitions, including solo shows at the Brooklyn Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. The Notion of Family, Frazier’s first book, was published in 2014.



拉托亚-鲁比-弗雷泽
摄影师和视频艺术家｜2015级
捕捉后工业衰退对边缘化社区的影响，说明摄影如何促进关于历史变革和社会责任的对话。


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标题
摄影师和视频艺术家
所属机构
芝加哥艺术学院
工作地点
伊利诺伊州，芝加哥
年龄
获奖时为33岁
重点领域
摄影、活动影像
网站
latoyarubyfrazier.com
芝加哥艺术学院。LaToya Ruby Frazier
发表于2015年9月29日
关于拉托亚的作品
LaToya Ruby Frazier是一位摄影师和视频艺术家，她使用视觉自传来捕捉后工业时代的社会不平等和历史变化。在上世纪初的纪录片实践的启发下，弗雷泽在自画像和社会叙事的混合作品中，探索了地方、种族和家庭的身份。宾夕法尼亚州布拉多克这个曾经繁荣的钢铁小镇的破败景观构成了她的图像的背景，这些图像既体现了后工业衰退造成的环境和基础设施的衰败，也体现了那些继续生活在其中的人（主要是出于需要）的生活。

家庭的概念 "是一系列坚定不移的黑白照片，展示了她的母亲、祖母和艺术家本人在一个没有投资和人口下降的Braddock。弗雷泽严酷的肖像强调了自我和物理空间之间的联系，并使人们看到忽视和遗弃的后果--失业、环境健康危机和缺乏获得服务的机会--对于布拉多克这个历史上被边缘化的工人阶级的非裔美国人社区。在2011年的一个名为Campaign for Braddock Hospital（"拯救我们的社区医院"）的摄影和丝网印刷系列中，弗雷泽在乐观的消费资本主义和劳动人民的挑战之间设置了一个讽刺的并列。2010年Levi Strauss的宣传活动中的Braddock图片，印有 "准备工作 "的口号，与Braddock居民关于同年该镇唯一的医院--其主要雇主--关闭的话语形成对比。

在最近的摄影作品中，弗雷泽从天空中记录了布拉多克的全彩航拍，记录了一个社区在多年的经济崩溃后的广泛转变。弗雷泽不妥协的动人作品说明了当代摄影如何能够开启关于美国历史、阶级结构和社会责任的对话。

个人简历
LaToya Ruby Frazier在宾夕法尼亚州的Edinboro大学获得学士学位（2004年），在雪城大学获得硕士学位（2007年）。她在曼哈顿下城文化委员会（2009-2010年）和惠特尼美国艺术博物馆独立研究项目（2010-2011年）担任艺术家驻地，在担任芝加哥艺术学院摄影系助理教授之前，她是柏林美国学院的Guna S. Mundheim研究员（2013-2014）。弗雷泽的作品出现在许多展览中，包括在布鲁克林博物馆、波士顿当代艺术研究所、西雅图艺术博物馆和休斯敦当代艺术博物馆的个人展览。家庭的概念》是弗雷泽的第一本书，于2014年出版。