Photographer Deana Lawson reveals her first self-portrait in almost 10 years.
Early in her career, in 2012, Deana Lawson made a self-portrait—the first and only one she has included in her body of work. In that image, she’s in a formfitting minidress, in a public garden, and her camera is an 8-by-10 behemoth that conceals almost half her body. Although she was in her early 30s when she took that photo, she has the air of a kid with boundless ambition: Her work had just entered MoMA’s photography collection.
Earlier this fall, I asked Lawson if it might be time for this brilliant portrayer of other people’s inner lives to have another go at photographing herself. Turns out she had been thinking of doing just that. “It’s the same impulse that came up in 2012,” she says. “It’s also present now. My work always begins with an impulse, a quiet urging…. I guess I work best when I don’t really have the answers and just follow the instinct of what it could be.
Deana and her identical twin sister, Dana, were inseparable. They shared the same bedroom at home and during their first year at Penn State. Growing up, everybody called them DeanaDana, and when their best friend Dana Brown was with them, it became DeanaDanaDanaBrown. The Lawsons were a boisterous and self-confident clan , in a big, self-confident town. They came of age listening to Sunday morning gospel and intergenerational music on WDKX, the Black-owned radio station.
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