Susan Lipper

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Susan Lipper (born 1953) is an American photographer, based in New York City. [1] [2] Her books include Grapevine (1994), for which she is best known, Trip (2000) and Domesticated Land (2018). [3] Lipper has said that all of her work is "subjective documentary"; [4] the critic Gerry Badger has said many describe it as "ominous". [3]

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Lipper had a solo exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery, London in 1994 [5] and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. [6] Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [1] and New York Public Library in New York City, [7] Minneapolis Institute of Art, [8] Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, [9] and the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London. [10] [11]

Early life and education

Lipper was born and raised in New York City. She studied English Romantic poetry in college with a concentration on W. B. Yeats. [12] She received an MFA in photography from Yale University in 1983. [13]

Life and work

Lipper uses a medium format camera, a Hasselblad, sometimes with attached flash. [14] [15]

Lipper's first book, Innocence & the Birth of Jealousy (1974), combines photography and poetry. According to David Solo writing in The PhotoBook Review, the book "offers a single, tightly integrated meditation on narcissism and its effects on relationships." Lipper appears in a set of dance-like poses, photographed by Penny Slinger, while Lipper was studying English literature in London. "When Lipper reviewed the contact sheets, the idea of the sequence/story emerged, and she wrote the accompanying narrative poem". The book was published by Martin Booth under his Omphalos imprint. [16]

After returning to the United States, Lipper developed her more recognized style, as seen in the book trilogy Grapevine (1994), Trip (2004), and Domesticated Land (2018). [16]

For about 20 years she has been visiting and photographing a tiny community in Grapevine Hollow in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, eastern United States. [4] [17] The photographs she made there between 1988 and 1994, in collaboration with her subjects the residents, became Grapevine. [4] [3] The critic Gerry Badger has written that "Community, family, and gender relationships seem to be at the core of her investigation." [3] Lipper's collaborative approach distinguishes Grapevine from social documentary photography; [3] she describes it as "subjective documentary" and that "we were creating fictional images together [. . .] they knew the narratives I was playing around with as well as I did." [4] Izabela Radwanska Zhang wrote in the British Journal of Photography that it "challenges our belief in images labelled 'photojournalism', by interweaving a theatrical element. Lipper asked her models to assume characters that could essentially be them in the images; the result is a slippery, mysterious work." [18]

Trip, made between 1993 and 1999, paired photographs of urban landscapes and interiors with writing by Frederick Barthelme. [3] [19] [20] Domesticated Land was made between 2012 and 2016 in the California desert. [2] [19]

Publications

Books of work by Lipper

Books with contributions by Lipper

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Exhibitions with one other

Group exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Lipper's work is held in the following permanent collections:

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