LaToya Ruby Frazier Exhibition — Museum Gallery Wall

5 October 2017 · Paris

Two backlit frames on a dark museum wall: LaToya Ruby Frazier's documentary portraits from the Notion of Family series, displayed at scale in a dimly lit gallery. The left frame shows a domestic interior scene; the right presents a direct, seated portrait of a young woman that holds the room still. Exhibition copy mounted to the right identifies the works by title and year. Documentary photography at this scale does something still images rarely do — it keeps the subject in the room rather than behind glass.