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'', May 28, 1999 She lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Lixenberg pursues long-term projects on individuals and communities on the margins of society. Her books include ''Jeffersonville, Indiana'' (2005), ''The Last Days of Shishmaref'' (2008), ''Set Amsterdam'' (2011), ''De Burgemeester/The Mayor'' (2011), and ''Imperial Courts'' (2015). In 2017 Lixenberg won the

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for her publication ''Imperial Courts'' (Roma, 2015). In 2021 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the

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Life and work

Lixenberg studied photography at the London College of Printing (1984–1986) and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (1987–1989). She has had work published in ''Newsweek,'' ''Vibe,'' ''New York Times Magazine,'' ''The New Yorker'' and ''Rolling Stone.'' Lixenberg pursues long-term projects with a primary focus on individuals and communities on the margins of society, such as ''Jeffersonville, Indiana,'' a collection of landscapes and portraits of the small town's homeless population photographed over a seven-year period, and ''The Last Days of Shishmaref'', which portrays an Inupiaq community on an eroding island of the coast of Alaska. She photographed

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'', April 8, 2001 All her work is made with a

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camera. Decisive in her career was the first series of photos she made in 1993 of

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, a public housing project in Watts, Los Angeles. Lixenberg portrayed residents as distinctive and charismatic personalities, without direct references to their gang. The exhibition ''Imperial Courts, 1993-2015'' at

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in Amsterdam (2015) was the first comprehensive presentation of the Imperial Courts series, spanning a period of twenty-two years. As well as her photographs, the exhibition included a three channel video projection, an audio installation, and her book of the same name.

Publications

*''Imperial Courts, 1993-2015.'' Amsterdam: Roma, 2015. . With texts by Kenneth Cox, Lixenberg, and Carla Williams.

Awards

*2017:

for ''Imperial Courts'' (2015) *2021: Honorary Fellowship of the

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References

External links

Lixenberg at GRIMM galleryInterview with Lixenberg
– Documentary film 'Dana Lixenberg; thru Dutch eyes' (Pieter v.d. Houwen:1999) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lixenberg, Dana 1964 births Living people Dutch film directors Dutch women film directors Photographers from Amsterdam Dutch expatriates in the United States Gerrit Rietveld Academie alumni Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize winners 20th-century Dutch photographers 20th-century Dutch women artists 20th-century Dutch women photographers 21st-century Dutch photographers 21st-century Dutch women photographers