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The Artist Project: LaToya Ruby Frazier

Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier reflects on Gordon Parks's Red Jackson in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"There's tremendous beauty in people's pain and their suffering."

Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier reflects on Gordon Parks's "Red Jackson" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
LaToya Ruby Frazier, born in 1982, is an American artist working in photography, video and performance.

A young Black girl sitting on the floor of a house with her grandmother

LaToya Ruby Frazier (American, born 1982)

Grandma Ruby and Me, 2005

Gelatin silver print; 18 3/8 × 23 5/16 in. (46.7 × 59.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, The Photography Council Fund (22.2015) © LaToya Ruby Frazier

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Red Jackson, Harlem, New York, Gordon Parks American, Gelatin silver print
Red Jackson, Harlem, New York
Gordon Parks
1948