White shoes / Nona Faustine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faustine, Nona, author, photographer, artist, interviewee.

Contributor:

Rodney, Seph, contributor.

Lanay, Jessica, contributor, interviewer.

Sneed, Pamela, contributor.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic.

Portrait photography.

Female nude in art.

Women, Black, in art--Photography.

Women, Black, in art.

Women photographers.

Slave trade in art--Photography.

Slave trade in art.

Slavery in art--Photography.

Slavery in art.

art photography.

Photography.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

117 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : chiely illustrations (color), color portraits ; 30 x 31 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Nona Faustine : white shoes

Place of Publication:

London : Mack, [2021]

Summary:

White Shoes is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York that were central to the city's once pivotal - and now largely obscured and unacknowledged - involvement in the slave trade. Nona Faustine depicts herself at the sites of slave auctions, burial grounds, slave-owning farms, and the coastal locations where slave ships docked, posing nude apart from a pair of white high-heeled shoes. Documenting herself in places where history becomes tangible, Faustine acts as a conduit or receptor, in solidarity with people whose names and memories have been lost but are embedded in the land. Through quiet but defiant self-representation, Faustine responds to a history of depiction of Black people that is shaped by subjugation, phrenology, and pseudo-science. Her complex large-format images refer and respond to a range of sources including daguerrotypes of slaves and photographs commissioned by naturalists, while her nudity - expressive of fearless self-possession as well as vulnerability - subverts the legacy of Black and female nudes in Western art. Running throughout the images, the talismanic white shoes that give the series its name suggest the many adaptations to dominant White culture that were and are still demanded of people of colour. At once historical and speculative, White Shoes confronts the relationship between the visible and invisible, between what is displayed and what is kept from view.

Notes:

Essays by Nona Faustine, Seph Rodney, Jessica Lenay, and Pamela Sneed ; interview of the artist by Jessica Lanay.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

1913620514

9781913620516

OCLC:

1258646709