Mom Relaxing My Hair, 2006

Price Realised USD 5,000

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USD 8,000 - USD 12,000

Closed: 28 Oct 2020

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LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER (B. 1982)

Mom Relaxing My Hair, 2006

Price Realised USD 5,000

Closed: 28 Oct 2020

Price Realised USD 5,000

Closed: 28 Oct 2020

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LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER (B. 1982)
Mom Relaxing My Hair, 2006
gelatin silver print, printed 2014
signed, titled, dated and numbered '11/15 + 2AP' in pencil (verso)
image: 10¹⁄₈ x 12¹⁄₈ in. (25.7 x 30.7 cm.)
sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.5 cm.)
This work is number eleven from an edition of fifteen plus two artist's proofs.

Courtesy of Cathy Kaplan.

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Lot Essay

LaToya Ruby Frazier embraces the canonical history of black-and-white documentary photography in order to depict issues of race and economic decline in small-town America. Frazier’s work, as featured in the award-winning Aperture text , implements a cast of familial characters in order to articulate personal scenes from her home life in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The present lot, cast the photographer as both the subject and the voyeur, through the use of a shutter release cable Frazier seamlessly blends herself into the narrative, making this a work of both documentary and performative photography.