Dana Lixenberg (born 1964)Hay, David. Bringing Out the Gravitas In a Tough Housing Project, The New York Times, May 30, 1999 is a Dutch photographer and filmmaker.Knight, Christopher. Art Review; Portraits That Go Way Beyond Face Value; Dana Lixenberg's photographs transcend the Watts neighborhood where she took them, Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1999 She lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Lixenberg pursues long-term projects on individuals and communities on the margins of society. Her books include Jeffersonville, Indiana (2005), The Last Days of Shishmaref (2008), Set Amsterdam (2011), De Burgemeester/The Mayor (2011), and Imperial Courts (2015).
In 2017 Lixenberg won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her publication Imperial Courts (Roma, 2015). In 2021 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
Life and work
Lixenberg studied photography at the London College of Printing (1984–1986) and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (1987–1989). She has had work published in Newsweek, Vibe, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone.
Lixenberg pursues long-term projects with a primary focus on individuals and communities on the margins of society, such as Jeffersonville, Indiana, a collection of landscapes and portraits of the small town's homeless population photographed over a seven-year period, and The Last Days of Shishmaref, which portrays an Inupiaq community on an eroding island of the coast of Alaska.
She photographed Prince and Whitney Houston.Dana Lixenberg United States fototentoonstelling , VPRO, April 8, 2001 All her work is made with a large format camera.
Decisive in her career was the first series of photos she made in 1993 of Imperial Courts, a public housing project in Watts, Los Angeles. Lixenberg portrayed residents as distinctive and charismatic personalities, without direct references to their gang. The exhibition Imperial Courts, 1993-2015 at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam (2015) was the first comprehensive presentation of the Imperial Courts series, spanning a period of twenty-two years. As well as her photographs, the exhibition included a three channel video projection, an audio installation, and her book of the same name.
Publications Imperial Courts, 1993-2015. Amsterdam: Roma, 2015. . With texts by Kenneth Cox, Lixenberg, and Carla Williams.
Awards 2017: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for Imperial Courts (2015) 2021: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol
References
External links Lixenberg at GRIMM gallery Interview with Lixenberg – Documentary film 'Dana Lixenberg; thru Dutch eyes' (Pieter v.d. Houwen:1999)