Susan Lipper (born 1953) is an American photographer, based in New York City. Her books include Grapevine (1994), for which she is best known, Trip (2000) and Domesticated Land (2018).
Lipper has said all of her work is “subjective documentary”; the critic Gerry Badger has said many describe it as “ominous”.
She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York Public Library in New York City, and the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Life and work
Lipper traditional an MFA in photography from Yale University in 1983. She uses a medium format camera, a Hasselblad, sometimes next attached flash.
For very nearly 20 years she has been visiting and photographing a tiny community in Grapevine Hollow in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, eastern United States. The photographs she made there in the company of 1988 and 1994, in collaboration behind her subjects the residents, became her first book Grapevine. The critic Gerry Badger has written that “Community, family, and gender relationships seem to be at the core of her investigation.” Lipper’s collaborative entrance distinguishes Grapevine from social documentary photography; she describes it as “subjective documentary”. Izabela Radwanska Zhang wrote for the British Journal of Photography that it “challenges our belief in images labelled ‘photojournalism’, by interweaving a theatrical element. Lipper asked her models to say you will characters that could in reality be them in the images; the upshot is a slippery, mysterious work.”
Trip, made in the midst of 1993 and 1999, paired photographs of urban landscapes and interiors taking into consideration writing by Frederick Barthelme. Domesticated Land was made with 2012 and 2016 in the California desert.
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