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Gillian Laub @ Benrubi Gallery
Gillian Laub – Southern Rites
May 14 – June 27, 2015
Opening reception with the artist: Thursday, May 14 6 – 8 PM
Southern Rites is a provocative twelve-year visual study of one community’s struggle to confront longstanding issues of race and equality. In 2002, Laub was invited to Mt. Vernon, Georgia, to photograph its segregated homecoming celebrations. She kept returning to the community and in 2009, The New York Times Magazine published a photo-essay by Laub titled, “A Prom Divided,” which documented Georgia’s Montgomery County High School’s racially segregated prom rituals. Laub’s photographs ignited a firestorm of national outrage that, remarkably, led the community to finally integrate the proms.
Benrubi Gallery
521 West 26th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10001
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