Love, you came from greatness /
"This profoundly moving and visually ravishing photobook, the first major monograph by American photographer Nydia Blas (born 1981), is an exploration of one Ithaca-based Black family and its community across many generations. The book is also a formally rigorous examination of the taxonomy and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Ithaca, New York] :
Image Text Ithaca Press,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "This profoundly moving and visually ravishing photobook, the first major monograph by American photographer Nydia Blas (born 1981), is an exploration of one Ithaca-based Black family and its community across many generations. The book is also a formally rigorous examination of the taxonomy and syntax of family portraiture. Blas' contemporary works are integrated with selections from her historical family albums in order to tell an extended intergenerational story, and to bring forward the evolving and recurring nature of the portrait photograph throughout the medium's history. Deploying doubling, repetition and more subtle echoing and mirroring, Love, You Came from Greatness builds a powerful line of feeling and thought across generations and photographic tropes and styles. It features an illustrated discussion among Blas, curator Kate Addleman-Frankel and Cornell University and Spelman College art historian Cheryl Finley. The volume concludes with the republication of bell hooks' seminal 1995 essay "In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life," a deeply personal text that expands on crucial themes of family, photography, and Black identity and community"-- |
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| Item Description: | "This book emerged from a commission by the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, for the artist to create and exhibit a new body of work in dialogue with historical African-American family albums held by the Cornell Library"--Page v. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 96 unnumbered pages of plates, xxi pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781733497145 1733497145 |