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Southern Rites - Hardcover

Laub, Gillian

 
9788862084130: Southern Rites
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8862084137 ISBN 13: 9788862084130
Publisher: Damiani, 2015

Synopsis

Southern Rites is an original and provocative twelve-year visual study of one community's struggle to confront longstanding issues of race and equality. In May 2009, The New York Times Magazine published a photo-essay by Gillian Laub entitled, "A Prom Divided," which documented Georgia's Montgomery County High School's racially segregated homecoming and prom rituals. Laub's photographs ignited a firestorm of national outrage and led the community to finally integrate. One year later, there was newfound hope--a historic campaign to elect the county's first African American sheriff, yet the murder of a young black man--portrayed in Laub's earlier prom series--by a white town patriarch, reopened old wounds. Through her intimate portraits and first-hand testimony, Laub reveals in vivid color the horror and humanity of these complex, intertwined narratives. The photographer's inimitable sensibility--it is the essence and emotional truth of the singular person in front of her lens that matters most--ensures that, however elevated the ideas and themes may be, her pictures remain studies of individuals; a chronicle of their courage in the face of injustice, of their suffering and redemption, possessing an unsettling power.

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About the Author

Gillian Laub's first monograph, Testimony, was published by Aperture in 2007, to critical acclaim. This body of work is comprised of portraits and interviews from Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs and Palestinians all directly and indirectly affected by the second Intifada. Laub is a recipient of the Aaron Siskind Fellowship and Jerome Foundation Grant. She is represented by Benrubi Gallery and contributes to many publications such at TIME Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. Southern Rites is also Laub's first feature documentary film airing on HBO in May 2015.

From the Back Cover

Southern Rites is an original and provocative twelve-year visual study of one community s struggle to confront longstanding issues of race and equality. In May 2009, The New York Times Magazine published a photo-essay by Gillian Laub entitled, A Prom Divided, which documented Georgia s Montgomery County High School s racially segregated homecoming and prom rituals. Laub s photographs ignited a firestorm of national outrage and led the community to finally integrate. One year later, there was newfound hope a historic campaign to elect the county s first African American sheriff, yet the murder of a young black man portrayed in Laub s earlier prom series by a white town patriarch, reopened old wounds. Through her intimate portraits and first-hand testimony, Laub reveals in vivid color the horror and humanity of these complex, intertwined narratives. The photographer s inimitable sensibility it is the essence and emotional truth of the singular person in front of her lens that matters most ensures that, however elevated the ideas and themes may be, her pictures remain studies of individuals; a chronicle of their courage in the face of injustice, of their suffering and redemption, possessing an unsettling power.

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Publisher
Damiani
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8862084137
ISBN 13 
9788862084130
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
160