Grandma Ruby and Me
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Photography
In these photographs, LaToya Ruby Frazier’s intimate depictions of herself and her family simultaneously record the economic decline and social inequities that plague her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, the site of industrialist Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill. Referencing early-twentieth-century documentary photographers, who worked in black and white, the artist locates herself through familial connections in portraits with her mother and grandmother, the worn image of the smiling Huxtable family on her T-shirt, or the space of one’s childhood home. At the same time, Frazier’s images mark the passage of time by her and her family’s experiences with illness, a reality reminiscent of the heightened health risks faced by many people working and living in the Rust Belt.
MEDIUM
Gelatin silver print
DATES
2005
DIMENSIONS
sheet: 15 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (39.4 x 47 cm)
frame: 24 5/8 x 28 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. (62.5 x 72.7 x 3.8 cm)
mount: 24 x 28 in. (61 x 71.1 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Photography
ACCESSION NUMBER
2011.63.1
CREDIT LINE
Emily Winthrop Miles Fund
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
LaToya Ruby Frazier (American, born 1982). Grandma Ruby and Me, 2005. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 15 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (39.4 x 47 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Emily Winthrop Miles Fund, 2011.63.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Image courtesy of the artist, CUR.2011.63.1_artist_photograph.jpg)
EDITION
Edition: AP1
IMAGE
overall, CUR.2011.63.1_artist_photograph.jpg. Image courtesy of the artist
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RIGHTS STATEMENT
©LaToya Ruby Frazier
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