1LaToya Ruby Frazier

2Grandma Ruby and Me from the series The Notion of Family - 2005

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Grandma Ruby on her bed from the series The Notion of Family - 2005

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Grandma Ruby and U.P.M.C. – Campaign for Braddock Hospital - 2005

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Quote

• “The reason I obsess over photographing all of us is that I don’t have a

family history. We didn’t have a photo album. We didn’t talk about the

past. My mother had difficult times and maybe to protect me she didn’t

want to discuss it”

6Momme and her boyfriend Mr. Art - 2005

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Me and Momme – Momme Portrait a Series - 2008

8Momme – Momme Portrait Series – 2008

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Shadow – Momme Portrait Series - 2008

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Gramps on his bed - 2002

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Back inside the home she shared with her grandparents from Series Homebody - 2010

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Covered in Gramps Blanket from series The Homebody - 2010

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In Gramps pyjamas from series The Homebody - 2010

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Quote

• “Family secrets, hidden history and constant silence defined our co-

existence”.

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Urban Pioneer – Levi’s Campaign 2010

If we are all exploited

Under employed

Unemployed

Then…….

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• A contradiction to Frazier’s imagery of the marginalisation of the town’s

senior citizen’s and African Americans as they struggle for economic

opportunity and access to health care.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lw6r5IqxxE

La Toya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi’s – ‘New York Close Up’ - 2011