Gillian Laub

Family Matters

Gillian Laub, Maya Benton

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English

Aperture
04 January 2022

Individual photographers

""Gillian Laub's photographs of her family from the past twenty years, now collected in one volume, explore the ways society's biggest questions are revealed in our most intimate relationships.

Family Matters zeroes in on the artist's family as an example of the way Donald Trump's knack for sowing discord and division has impacted communities, individuals, and households across the country. As Laub explains, ""I began to unpack my relationship to my relatives-which turned out to be much more indicative of my relationship to the outside world than I had ever thought, and the key to exploring questions I had about the effects of wealth, vanity, childhood, aging, fragility, political conflict, religious traditions, and mortality."" These issues became tangible in 2016, when Laub and her parents found themselves on opposing sides of the most divisive presidential election in recent US history; and further exacerbated in the lead-up to the 2020 election, in the wake of a global pandemic and protests in support of Black Lives Matter.

Family Matters reveals Laub's willingness to confront ideas of privilege and unity, and to expose the fault lines and vulnerabilities of her relatives and herself. Ultimately, Family Matters celebrates the resiliency and power of family-including the family we choose-in the face of divisive rhetoric. In doing so, it holds up a highly personalized mirror to the social and political divides in the United States today.

By (photographer): Gillian Laub
Interviewer: Maya Benton
Imprint: Aperture
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 273mm, Width: 241mm,
Weight: 1.480kg
ISBN: 9781597114912
ISBN 10: 159711491X
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 04 January 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gillian Laub (born in Chappaqua, New York, 1975) is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York. She received a BA in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, before studying photography at the International Center of Photography, New York. Her works include the book Testimony (Aperture, 2007) and the book and HBO film Southern Rites (2015). Laub received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 2019. Maya Benton is a curator, lecturer, and writer. As a curator at the International Center of Photography, she organized Laub's traveling exhibition Southern Rites (2018-ongoing). In fall 2020, she became a visiting professor at Yale University.

Reviews for Gillian Laub: Family Matters

"""Family Matters is about the power of empathy and love to transcend the politics of almost any moment. It made me laugh out loud, and for the first time in a while, made me hopeful."" —Amy Schumer"