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]

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]

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][16] The photographs she made there between 1988 and 1994, in collaboration with her subjects the residents, became her first book 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."[17]

Trip, made between 1993 and 1999, paired photographs of urban landscapes and interiors with writing by Frederick Barthelme.[3][18][19] Domesticated Land was made between 2012 and 2016 in the California desert.[2][18]

Publications

Books of work by Lipper

  • Innocence & the Birth of Jealousy. Rushden, UK: Omphalos, 1974.
  • Grapevine: Photographs by Susan Lipper. Manchester, UK: Cornerhouse, 1994. ISBN 0948797134.
  • Trip. Photographs by Lipper with accompanying short texts by Frederick Barthelme.
    • Stockport, UK: Dewi Lewis, 2000. ISBN 1899235523.
    • Brooklyn, New York: powerHouse, 2000. ISBN 1576870510.
  • Bed and Breakfast. Country life 4. Maidstone, UK: Photoworks, 2000. ISBN 9780951742730. Edited by Val Williams. With an essay by David Chandler. Edition of 1000 copies.
  • Domesticated Land. London: Mack, 2018. ISBN 9781912339037.

Books with contributions by Lipper

Solo exhibitions

Awards

Collections

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Search the Collection". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  2. 1 2 "Photographers whose work I like - No31/ Susan Lipper". Harvey Benge, 28 June 2016. Accessed 26 March 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gerry Badger (2010). "Far from New York City: The Grapevine Work of Susan Lipper". The Pleasures of Good Photographs. Aperture Foundation. pp. 166–178. ISBN 978-1-59711-139-3.
  4. 1 2 3 4 O'Hagan, Sean (13 October 2010). "Interview: 'The mystery is enough': Susan Lipper on the Grapevine series". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  5. 1 2 https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/Prog_Exhibition_List_1971%20to%202023.pdf
  6. 1 2 "Susan Lipper". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Photographers in The New York Public Library's Photography Collection". New York Public Library. Accessed 26 March 2018.
  8. 1 2 "artist:"Susan Lipper"". Minneapolis Institute of Art. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  9. 1 2 "Susan Lipper". www.moca.org. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  10. 1 2 "Search Results". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  11. 1 2 "Susan Lipper (1953-), Photographer". National Portrait Gallery, London. Accessed 25 March 2018.
  12. ↑ "Susan Lipper". www.susanlipper.com. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  13. ↑ Tara, Wray (25 March 2016). "Doin' Work, Flash Interviews With Contemporary Photographers: Susan Lipper". HuffPost. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  14. ↑ Susan Harris-Edwards, "Grapevine: Photographs by Susan Lipper". History of Photography, Vol. 19, no. 2 (1995) 180–81. Accessed 26 March 2018.
  15. ↑ Susan Lipper, "ICP Lecture Series 2010: Susan Lipper Grapevine: Photographs by Susan Lipper". International Center of Photography. Accessed 26 March 2018.
  16. ↑ Hilton, Tim (6 February 1994). "Exhibitions / If you go down to the woods today: Susan Lipper's sympathetic photographs show a society in decline. Candida Hofer's go even further, taking the people out altogether". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-25. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  17. ↑ "Festival: Krakow Photomonth". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  18. 1 2 Domesticated Land by Susan Lipper.
  19. ↑ "Susan Lipper". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
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