{"product_id":"gillian-laub-southern-rites","title":"Gillian Laub: Southern Rites","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSouthern Rites\u003c\/em\u003e is an original and provocative 12-year visual study of one community's struggle to confront longstanding issues of race and equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn May 2009, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e published a photo-essay by Gillian Laub entitled \"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 and led the community to finally integrate. One year later, there was newfound hope--a historic campaign to elect the county's first African American sheriff. But the murder of a young black man--portrayed in Laub's earlier prom series--by a white town patriarch reopened old wounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThrough her intimate portraits and firsthand testimony, Laub reveals in vivid color the horror and humanity of these complex, intertwined narratives. The photographer's inimitable sensibility--it is the essence and emotional truth of the singular person in front of her lens that matters most--ensures that, however elevated the ideas and themes may be, her pictures remain studies of individuals; a chronicle of their courage in the face of injustice, of their suffering and redemption, possessing an unsettling power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gillian Laub Artist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555492499513,"sku":"210000001172","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/mg-4502-hi-res.jpg?v=1790278813","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/gillian-laub-southern-rites","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}