Purple Art

[04/13/2022]

“Deana Lawson,” an exhibition at MoMA PS1, New York

With more than fifty photographs produced over sixteen years of work, this exhibition exalts what Deana Lawson herself calls “the majesty of Black life, a nuanced Black life, one that is by far more complex, deep, beautiful, celebratory, tragic, weird, strange.” Taken from cities across Africa and the diaspora, the highly staged yet strikingly raw […]

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Photos by Deana Lawson

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