True Colors (Or, Affirmations In A Crisis) \n \nMurff constructs a manual that
allows us to deal with the historical and contemporary realities of structures
of privilege and caste that divide America. Since he left the
social work to devote himself to photography more than a decade ago,
Murff's work has consistently grappled with the complicit entanglement of
medium in histories of spectacle, commodification and race, in
often contextualizing his own photographs with found images and
appropriate and commissioned texts. True Colors continues this work, in
expanding it to the act of memory and the politics of the self, which Murff defines
as "the duality of black patriotism and the challenges of research
of belonging in places that are not made for me - of creation
of an affirmation in a moment of crisis as I learn to reconnect with my
own image". Nuanced, stimulating and inspiring, True Colors (or, Affirmations in
a Crisis) is an essential monograph of an artist on the rise and
out of the ordinary. \n \nTrue Colors is the result of the first edition of the Next
Step Award, a partnership between Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New
York, with the generous support of the 7G Foundation.
