Research Catalog

White shoes

Title: White shoes / Nona Faustine.
Author: Faustine, Nona
Publication: London : Mack, [2021]

Details

Additional Authors

Description

117 pages : color illustrations, color portraits; 30 x 31 cm

Summary

White Shoes is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York that were central to the city's once pivotal - and now largely obscured and unacknowledged - involvement in the slave trade. Nona Faustine depicts herself at the sites of slave auctions, burial grounds, slave-owning farms, and the coastal locations where slave ships docked, posing nude apart from a pair of white high-heeled shoes. Documenting herself in places where history becomes tangible, Faustine acts as a conduit or receptor, in solidarity with people whose names and memories have been lost but are embedded in the land. Through quiet but defiant self-representation, Faustine responds to a history of depiction of Black people that is shaped by subjugation, phrenology, and pseudo-science. Her complex large-format images refer and respond to a range of sources including daguerrotypes of slaves and photographs commissioned by naturalists, while her nudity - expressive of fearless self-possession as well as vulnerability - subverts the legacy of Black and female nudes in Western art. Running throughout the images, the talismanic white shoes that give the series its name suggest the many adaptations to dominant White culture that were and are still demanded of people of colour. At once historical and speculative, White Shoes confronts the relationship between the visible and invisible, between what is displayed and what is kept from view.

Alternative Title

Nona Faustine : white shoes

Subject

Genre/Form

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs.
Catalogues.

Note

Essays by Nona Faustine, Seph Rodney, Jessica Lenay, and Pamela Sneed ; interview of the artist by Jessica Lanay.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

From her body came their greatest wealth / Nona Faustine -- The naked power suit / Seph Rodney -- I cried---Power (Power, Lord) : the Afrofantastique in Nona Faustine's White shoes / Jessica Lanay -- A ghost made flesh / Pamela Sneed -- Feel without seeing (I was here) / Nona Faustine interviewed by Jessica Lanay.

ISBN

9781913620516
1913620514

LCCN

2021387506

OCLC

1258646709

Author

Faustine, Nona, photographer.

Title

White shoes / Nona Faustine.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Rodney, Seph, contributor.

Lanay, Jessica, contributor, interviewer.

Sneed, Pamela, contributor.

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