Nona Faustine - White Shoes Special Offer

Nona Faustine - White Shoes Special OfferMack 2021 White Shoes is a collection of self portraits taken in locations around New York that were central to the citys once pivotal and now largely obscured and unacknowledged involvement in the slave trade. Nona Faustine depicts herself at the sites of slave auctions, burial grounds, slave owning farms, and the coastal locations where slave ships docked, posing nude apart from a pair of white high heeled shoes. Documenting herself in places where

The images depict a variety of everyday materials and situations

Neville Wakefield

a gender inversion of the usual terms of possession

She would spend the weekends photographing public gatherings

Now and then

Once a city with a flourishing textile industry

all shot on film

ISBN 978-1-913620-44-8

With an introduction by philosopher Dirk van Weelden

performance

The work weaves in and out of three groups of images: photographs of rainbows from Western Ireland

116 plates