{"id":321,"date":"2020-12-08T15:51:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/?page_id=321"},"modified":"2020-12-16T00:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T00:19:14","slug":"deana-lawson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/deana-lawson\/","title":{"rendered":"Deana Lawson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-443\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/dlawson-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/dlawson-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/dlawson-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/dlawson-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/dlawson.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deana Lawson is a contemporary photographer from New York whose work explores representations of Blackness in its many forms. Through meticulous attention to her models&#8217; pose and the composition of the photograph, Lawson&#8217;s work imbues her subjects &#8211; especially Black women &#8211; with agency and beauty that they have historically been denied.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Through Her Gaze\u00a0<\/em>features one of Lawson&#8217;s works:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367\" style=\"width: 318px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-367\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/deanalawsonsharon-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Deana Lawson, Sharon, Edition 6\/6, Pigment print, 40 x 51 inches (101.6 x 129.5 cm), 2007\" width=\"318\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/deanalawsonsharon-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/deanalawsonsharon.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deana Lawson (American, born 1979) Sharon, Edition 6\/6<br \/>Pigment print (40 x 51 inches (101.6 x 129.5 cm)), 2007<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Artist Talk: Deana Lawson\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XzjWtGGDklQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The New York-based photographer discusses her work on view in the inaugural exhibition of the Ruttenberg Contemporary Photography Series at the Art Institute of Chicago. Recorded 10\/15\/15. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">For more information, visit <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.artic.edu%2Fexhibition%2Fdeana-lawson-ruttenberg-contemporary-photography-series&amp;v=XzjWtGGDklQ&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmJhaVEyWXdxWG11LTJwM2tOWUN3RFJSQ0JxUXxBQ3Jtc0ttYnV0ckdBTEJmOTdPY1FILVF5QWJWRnVsTDQ5YXduV2E3VWRQNUkzdnRablJGUVNHNlpaTktOVXNTVTRtYWs3RVlwT0hQdDZnUnFKazR6MG9OUDFlWWNqOWtKaktMcFRDaDdZcTZSZnc3NkFlWDdZRQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibition\/deana&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conversations | New Ways of Seeing \u2013 Photography Now\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fLuSmHeM08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Antwaun Sargent, author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, is joined by leading contemporary photographers Deana Lawson and Paul Mpagi Sepuya to explore contemporary approaches to portraying the black figure in photography.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Hoeh, art collector, New York City<\/p>\n<p>Deana Lawson, artist and photographer, New York City<\/p>\n<p>Paul Mpagi Sepuya, artist and photographer, Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p>Moderator: Antwaun Sargent, art critic and writer, New York City<\/p>\n<p>Friday, December 6, 2019, 5pm \u2013 6pm Filmed on site at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More about the artist:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/article\/42580\/1\/the-stories-deana-lawson-intimate-regal-domestic-underground-musuem<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/11\/arts\/design\/deana-lawson-photography-underground-museum.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deana Lawson is a contemporary photographer from New York whose work explores representations of Blackness in its many forms. Through meticulous attention to her models&#8217; pose and the composition of the photograph, Lawson&#8217;s work imbues her subjects &#8211; especially Black women &#8211; with agency and beauty that they have historically been denied. &nbsp; Through Her &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/deana-lawson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deana Lawson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}