#deborah luster

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Deborah Luster (b. 1951), “Halloween Haunted House”

St. Gabriel, Louisiana, October 27, 2000

no. 81 from the series ‘One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana’

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Albert James, "Dino," Transylvania, Louisiana, Photo by Deborah Luster, 1999

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"Highway Construction, Wake County, North Carolina, 2004" This photograph was included in the exhibition, "Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South," Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston. I was one of the 55 photographers invited to participate. Others included Mark Steinmetz, Deborah Luster, Jeff Rich, Stacy Kranitz, Tammy Mercure and Eugene Richards. The incredible free-standing website dedicated to the exhibition is still standing:

https://lnkd.in/gpkqTyDx

[standingatthefence]

Deborah Luster | Sunday Morning, 1993

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Deborah Luster

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Deborah Luster

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Deborah Luster, "A Tooth for an Eye" 2008-10. Toned silver gelatin print mounted on Dibond.

In 1988, Luster's mother was murdered by a hired killer. The tragedy understandably flavored her artwork. "A Tooth for an Eye," is a series of photographs taken throughout the streets of New Orleans, each location once the site of a homicide.

Luster's work is uniquely characterized by the circular framing, almost as if the viewer is looking down the barrel of a gun. Her photographs are a blunt depiction of life insisting upon itself, even in the face of death.

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Deborah Luster

The Prisoner, Izard County, Arkansas, 1993