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Momme

Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier (American, born 1982)
Date2008
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 20 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches (52.07 x 60.01 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2011.67.5
SignedSigned on mount verso, in pencil: "Latoya Ruby Frazier"
InscribedOn mount verso, in pencil: "Momme 2008 APII"
Markingsnone
Edition/State/ProofA.P. 2
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionProfile of woman with second woman seated behind her looking forward Gallery Label

My photographs are a collaborative process between my mother and myself. Mom is co-author, artist, and subject. I am also the subject and content of the work … I view Mom and myself as one entity. —LaToya Ruby Frazier


LaToya Ruby Frazier uses photography to underscore the relationship between personal identity and the environment that shapes it. Frazier was born in a once-thriving steel mill town that, by the 1970s, had fallen into social and economic decline. About this portrait, Frazier has noted: “There is an intergenerational transference of our identities in the history of Braddock, Pennsylvania … The fact that I believe in confronting problems instead of running or hiding from them is why I choose to photograph what is dearest and closest to me.”

Provenance
Purchased from Higher Pictures, New York, NY, by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2011;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2011.
Copyright© LaToya Ruby Frazier
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