Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph Limited-Edition

Aperture is pleased to present a special limited edition of Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph complete with rose-gold gilded pages, a luxurious slipcase, and a custom tipped-on c-print of Lawson’s iconic portrait, The Garden, 2015. Please note that the c-print is not removable from the book’s cover.

Deana Lawson is one of the most compelling photographers of her generation. Over the last ten years, she has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals. Using medium- and large-format cameras, Lawson works with models she meets in the United States and on travels in the Caribbean and Africa to construct arresting, highly structured, and deliberately theatrical scenes animated by an exquisite range of color and attention to surprising details: bedding and furniture in domestic interiors or lush plants in Edenic gardens. The body—often nude—is central. Throughout her work, which invites comparison to the photography of Diane Arbus, Jeff Wall, and Carrie Mae Weems, Lawson seeks to portray the personal and the powerful. Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph features forty beautifully reproduced photographs, an essay by the acclaimed writer Zadie Smith, and an expansive conversation with the artist Arthur Jafa.

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.