The winner of its biannual Gwendolyn Knight/Jacob Lawrence Prize, SAM brought young Pennsylvania photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier to town for her Born by a River, which presented both family portraits and vistas of industrial blight in her hometown of Braddock. Her family photos, in which she sometimes appears, are deliberate, intimate scenes of hair braiding, doll collections, sick men in bed, old and gnarled feet and hands. Later she hired a helicopter to hover over the scraped lots and empty fields where homes once stood. A few houses are encircled by industrial brownfields. There’s a startling micro/macro effect as we pull up high to these impersonal views. The people are conspicuously missing, remembered only in Frazier’s photos. seattleartmuseum.org

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