Susan Lipper
Susan Lipper (b. 1953) is a documentary photographer and native New Yorker whose work largely centers around the act of traveling. With her project, Grapevine, she initially intended to stick to meandering along small, rural roads, but was ultimately absorbed into an unincorporated town in West Virginia. This work was published as her first monograph in 1994, forming what would become the beginning of a trilogy of photobooks; trip, her second monograph, follows a fictional jaunt through small-town America on and off Interstate 10 in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The final piece of the trilogy, Domesticated Land, Lipper continues to reconfigure the traditions and myths of the American landscape, photographing Californian deserts containing silence and ruin.
Lipper has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Public collections her work is held in include the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston); and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).