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print this pageKeynote Address: LaToya Ruby Frazier
2014 SPE Mid-Atlantic Keynote Address
Friday, November 07 - 6:10PM to 7:10PM
Marriott, Commonwealth Ballroom
The abandonment of suburban industrial towns by local and state governments has not been visually documented or accurately covered by the American mass media. With the rise of the "creative class" or "urban pioneers" pitted against the displaced working class, much human suffering experienced by the newly dislocated is overlooked. For over a decade, LaToya Ruby Frazier has been documenting, through photography and video, the collapse of the steel mill industry, environmental negligence, and deindustrialization that has affected her family and community in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a thirteen-block industrial town in the eastern region of Allegheny County. In this lecture, Frazier will discuss her work, the importance of documentary photography today, and focused particularly on the intersection of documentary art that represents invisible realities and the importance of cultural memory.
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