Her images of celebrated personalities, from Toni Morrison to Tupac Shakur, have grow to be iconic pictures. Dana Lixenberg tells us about three many years of offering her distinctive perspective on america and the evolution of a society she first began documenting within the Nineties. As her main, monographic exhibition “American Photos” opens on the Maison Européenne de la Picture in Paris, the Dutch photographer tells us about being shocked by the enduring success of her stunning black-and-white picture of Tupac, how a small neighborhood in South Central LA crystallised her love of image-making and why artifice in pictures is all proper in very small doses.
Dana Lixenberg's private, political and pared-down portraits
