Grapevine: Photographs

48 black & white photographs.
Hardcover, 320 x 275 mm.
Cornerhouse, Manchester.

In Lipper's pictures of rural West Virginia, the British public recognized traces of their own culture that stemmed from the North British and Scots-Irish immigrations of the nineteenth century. Though the work was viewed as classic documentary, Lipper's work instead spoke to a diaristic dramatization of her new home with friends and adopted family playing part. The series contains scenes of collaborative staging underscoring the often-polarized roles of rural men and women. - from susanlipper.com