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Deana Lawson

Binky and Tony Forever, 2009

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Description

Maker

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

Exhibition History

Any distance between us

July 17, 2021 - March 13, 2022

“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 inBed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So the picture’s actually in my apartment, it’s my bedroom. Often, I rearrange things in the environment, but in Binky and Tony Forever, my bedroom pretty much looked like that.”
–Deana Lawson, 2016

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

Use

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