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Nydia Blas
Love You Came from Greatness
- D.A.P.
- by Catherine Taylor, Nicholas Muellner, Cheryl Finley, Kate Addelman-Frankel
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| Publisher | D.A.P. |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781733497145 |
| Author(s) | by Catherine Taylor, Nicholas Muellner, Cheryl Finley, Kate Addelman-Frankel |
| Publication date | December 2024 |
| Edition | Hardback |
| Dimensions | 292 x 254 mm |
| Illustrations | 50 col.ill. | 10 bw.ill. |
| Pages | 130 |
| Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
A loving and powerful photobook following the lineage of one Black family, interrogating the semiotics of family portraiture.
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 art historian Cheryl Finley.