Excessive Exposure: The Complete Chocolate Portraits. Lyle Ashton Harris, Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2010.
In 2010, Gregory R. Miller & Co. will publish a major work documenting all of Lyle Ashton Harris’s portraits made with the large format (20 x 24 inches) Polaroid camera over the last eight years. This series of beautiful chocolate-colored paired front and back portraits, for which Harris has become well known, has now drawn to a close, making this the definitive publication of this body of work. Okwui Enwezor contributes a major new essay, which insightfully analyzes Harris’s portrait practice and situates these portraits in the context of Harris’s work over the last twenty years as well as in the broader history of portraiture. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Book design by Tommy Gear.
