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Deana Lawson

Binky and Tony Forever, 2009

Now On View Recent Acquisition

Description

Maker

Deana Lawson, b. 1979, American, (RISD MFA 2004, Photography)

Title

Binky and Tony Forever

Year

2009

Medium

Pigmented inkjet print

Dimensions

Frame: 96.5 x 112.1 cm (38 x 44 1/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

laumont mounting and framing label on back of frame in l.l. corner

Identification

Edition

5/6

Type

Credit

Museum purchase: Gift of Judy and Robert Mann and Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

2017.52

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

A lot of my work is about what I don’t see in popular media culture, and to me I felt like I needed to make an image that was about embracing and intimacy and support, physically, between young people, particularly young black people. I usually find strangers, and I photograph in their environment. When I asked Binky where she wanted to photograph, I don’t think she was comfortable at her place, so we decided to do it at my apartment in BedStuy, Brooklyn. So the picture’s actually in my apartment, it’s my bedroom. Often, I rearrange things in the environment but in Binky & Tony Forever, my bedroom pretty much looked like that.
–Deana Lawson

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