LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family - Tapa blanda

Frazier offers a perspective from the inside, and her images achieve a muted power without being sentimental or sensational. (The Editors, "Bookforum")

Frazier's challenging and haunting photographs have previously brought this story to museums and galleries, but in this, her first book, she adds writing to create a powerfully stark family portrait. The brilliance of this volume, and Frazier's work, is in the way it manages to be both documentary and art, deeply intimate and widely important, relentless but so very necessary. (Jillian Steinhauer, Hyperallergic)

Frazier reimagines the tradition of social documentary photography by approaching a community not as a curious or concerned outsider but as a vulnerable insider. (Maurice Berger, "New York Times" Lens blog)

In her first book, Frazier explores themes of economic inequity, racism and personal politics through three generations of her own family, and documents the tolls that big injustices can have on small families and communities alike. (Phil Bicker, TIME Lightbox)

Praise for The Notion of Family (Aperture, 2014)
Frazier offers a perspective from the inside, and her images achieve a muted power without being sentimental or sensational. (The Editors, Bookforum)
Frazier's challenging and haunting photographs have previously brought this story to museums and galleries, but in this, her first book, she adds writing to create a powerfully stark family portrait. The brilliance of this volume, and Frazier's work, is in the way it manages to be both documentary and art, deeply intimate and widely important, relentless but so very necessary. (Jillian Steinhauer, Hyperallergic)
Frazier reimagines the tradition of social documentary photography by approaching a community not as a curious or concerned outsider but as a vulnerable insider. (Maurice Berger, New York Times Lens blog)
In her first book, Frazier explores themes of economic inequity, racism and personal politics through three generations of her own family, and documents the tolls that big injustices can have on small families and communities alike. (Phil Bicker, TIME Lightbox)