Grapevine  (1988–92)

Silver gelatin prints: 13 x 13 inches, edition of 20 with 2 APs
Some images are available 33 x 33 inches


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Introduction to Grapevine

These pictures are not an effort to document, in any real sense, Grapevine Hollow,
West Virginia, but rather the collision of my experiences, the tangible world and
the nature of photography.

I first photographed Grapevine, West Virginia in 1988. It is such a small town that
a resident once said that if you didn’t know it was a hollow you would think it was
someone’s driveway. It was never my intention to stay for a long time in any one
place, the general nature of most photographic road trips, yet repeated visits of
varying lengths up to several months continued for over five years.

I found myself driven by a desire for repeated interaction with the community and
to specific places and events in Grapevine. And also perhaps to an intimacy never
before imagined. After all it was a chance set of circumstances which brought me
to Grapevine in the first place.

This series of photographs is my journal.

SL

New York City, 1993

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Book


          






Grapevine
Photographs by Susan Lipper
112 pages, 48 black & white photographs
Hardcover, 320 x 275 mm
Cornerhouse. Manchester, 1994.
IBSN: 0948797134


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Limited Edition

Grapevine, is currently available as a deluxe slipcased limited edition.

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Selected Essays


Hilton, Tim. “If you go down to the woods today.” Independent on Sunday, Sunday Review.
           
Feb. 6, 1994.


Edwards, Susan Harris. "Grapevine: photographs by Susan Lipper." History of Photography.
         Vol. 19, no. 2, 1995
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Williams, Val. “Susan Lipper: Collisions of Experience.” Photoworks, issue 12, 2009.

Badger, Gerry. "Far from New York City: The Grapevine Work of Susan Lipper." The
         Pleasures of Good Photographs.
New York: Aperture, 2010.


O’Hagen Sean. "Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South."
        The Observer
, October 3, 2010
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Selected New York Press

Aletti, Vince. “Voice Choices. ” Village Voice, July 21, 2004.




Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review.” The New York Times, July 23, 2004.

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Selected Installation Views


Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South, De La Warr Pavilion, UK. 2010



Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South, De La Warr Pavilion, UK. 2010



Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England, 1994



Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England, 1994



Motus Fort, Tokyo, 2008

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Myth Manners and Memory
Photographers of the American South
64 pages, full color
Hardback, 205 x 165 mm
Limited edition of 1000
Photoworks, 2010.
IBSN 978-1-903796-43-6


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Video about Myth, Manners and Memory Exhibition






Parr, Martin and Gerry Badger. The Photobook: A History Volume 3.