Lorna Simpson - 15 Mouths American, b.1960 15 Mouths, 2002 Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1960, Lorna Simpson began her career as a documentary photographer. Recognized in the mid-1980's for her provocative photographs of black women that challenged racial and gender stereotypes, Lorna Simpson soon began to investigate the myriad readings of photography, making conceptual compositions that combined black-and-white images with text and used the discrepancy between the two to block traditional…
