Suzy Lake

Step into the fearless, thought-provoking world of one of photography’s true trailblazers with Suzy Lake, a powerful monograph celebrating over four decades of radical, boundary-pushing work. This striking hardback brings together 228 pages and 170 images that explore gender, identity, the body, and self-representation with intelligence, wit, and unapologetic conviction.

Suzy Lake’s practice is bold, personal, and deeply relevant. From confronting ageism and beauty standards in Beauty at a Proper Distance / In Song—where glowing, close-up portraits of her face appeared in public spaces—to reclaiming authority and visibility in Performing Haute Couture, Lake consistently turns the camera back on cultural expectations. Her work challenges who gets to be seen, how, and on whose terms.

A pioneer in adapting new technologies, Lake uses photography not just as image-making, but as metaphor and inquiry. In Reduced Performing, she employed advanced scanning technology to capture her entire body, pushing the medium to its conceptual and technical limits. Whether political or quietly empowering, her images are always rooted in self-awareness and resistance to superficial narratives—making them especially resonant in today’s image-saturated, social-media-driven world.

As Lake herself says, her art is “how I make sense of my life and how I come to terms with the world.” That process has produced one of the most influential bodies of photographic work of the past 45 years. Insightful, provocative, and visually stunning, Suzy Lake is essential reading for artists, photographers, and anyone interested in art that challenges, questions, and endures.

Details 

• Hardcover 
• 228 Pages with 117 Illustrations   
• 10 x 1.1 x 12.1 inch