Exhibitions to See
Family Pictures
When Roy DeCarava set out in mid-twentiethcentury Harlem to undertake what would become the landmark photobook (1955), he employed photography as “a creative expression to meditate on everyday life and family,” says Drew Sawyer, head of exhibitions and curator of photography at—LaToya Ruby Frazier, Deana Lawson, Carrie Mae Weems, John Edmonds, and Gordon Parks among them—work in a similar vein, pushing against traditional notions of documentary photography in radical and intimate depictions of domestic life.
