A loving and powerful photobook following the lineage of one Black family, interrogating the semiotics of family portraiture This profoundly moving and visually ravishing photobook, the first major monograph by American photographer Nydia Blas (born 1981), is an exploration of one Ithaca-based Black family and its community across many generations. The book is also a formally rigorous examination of the taxonomy and syntax of family portraiture.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. Deploying doubling, repetition and more subtle echoing and mirroring, Love, You Came from Greatness builds a powerful line of feeling and thought across generations and photographic tropes and styles. It features an illustrated discussion among Blas, curator Kate Addleman-Frankel and Cornell art historian Cheryl Finley. Karen Jaime is Assistant Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies at Cornell University. As a published poet, Karen's work is included in The Best of Panic! En Vivo From the East Village and Flicker and Spark: A Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry. Catherine Taylor was born and grew up on the island of Guernsey in the British Channel Islands. She is a former journalist, most recently for Dow Jones News and The Wall Street Journal in London. Beyond The Moon is her first novel. She lives in Ealing, London with her husband and two children. Publisher: Image Text Ithaca Press Publish Date: January 21, 2025 Pages: 130 Language: English Type: Hardcover EAN/UPC: 9781733497145 BISAC Categories: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General, Individual Photographers - Monographs, Subjects & Themes - Portraits & Selfies
