LaToya Ruby Frazier's First Solo Museum Exhibition in New York at Brooklyn Museum

LaToya Ruby Frazier's debut solo museum exhibition in New York, 'LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital,' runs through August 11 at the Brooklyn Museum. The 31-year-old artist presents over forty black and white photographs that document her family's experience in Braddock, Pennsylvania, where Andrew Carnegie established his first steel mill. Her work blends social documentation with fine art, using her mother and grandmother as subjects to explore economic decline. Frazier employs a stark aesthetic reminiscent of Depression-era photography to portray urban decay without sentimentality. The exhibition transforms images of blighted landscapes into psychological portraits of community and national crisis.