Author: Blas, NydiaThis profoundly moving and visually ravishing photobook, the first major monograph by Nydia Blas, is an exploration of one Ithaca-based Black family and its community across many generations. The book is also a formally rigourous examination of the taxonomy and syntax of family portraiture. Deploying doubling, repetition and more subtle echoing and mirroring, this title builds a powerful line of feeling and thought across generations and photographic tropes and styles.Blas’ contemporary works are integrated with selections from her historical family albums in order to tell an extended intergenerational story, and to bring forward the evolving and recurring nature of the portrait photograph throughout the medium’s history. It features an illustrated discussion among Blas, curator Kate Addleman-Frankel and Cornell art historian Cheryl Finley.ISBN 9781733497145. Image Text Ithaca Press. hb. 130 pages. 50 colour, 10 b/w ills. 29.2 x 25.4 cm.available
