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LaToya Ruby Frazier
If Everybody's Work Is Equally Important? (II)2010

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Four cyanotype prints in a grid, each showing a young person in denim and a flat-brimmed cap posed dynamically against a deep Prussian blue background
Cyanotype print, full-length portrait of a person in a flat cap, denim jacket, jeans, work boots, and white-cuffed gloves, crouching forward against a deep blue background, holding a worn helmet on one knee.
Cyanotype print of a full-length figure in jeans, work shirt, flat cap, and boots, caught mid-motion with arms extended and body leaning forward, rendered in deep blue tones with slight motion blur on the arms against a dark background.
Cyanotype print of a youth in a denim jacket, cap, and jeans, standing against a dark background with both arms raised overhead, rendered entirely in deep blue tones with deckled paper edges visible.
Cyanotype photograph, full-length figure standing in three-quarter view, wearing a flat cap, denim shirt, heavily torn jeans, work gloves, and boots, rendered entirely in deep blue tones against a dark background.
Artist or Maker
LaToya Ruby Frazier
United States, Braddock, Pennsylvania, born 1982, active Chicago
Title
If Everybody's Work Is Equally Important? (II)
Date Made
2010
Medium
Cyanotype
Dimensions
Image (each): 28 × 22 in. (71.12 × 55.88 cm) Primary support (each): 28 × 22 1/4 in. (71.12 × 56.52 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number
M.2018.153.1-.4
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Lawson, Dhyandra. Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art & Poetics. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.