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Susan Lipper was born and raised in New York City. After studying English Romantic poetry in college with a concentration on Yeats (including her junior year abroad in London), she graduated with an MFA in photography from Yale School of Art in 1983. Later she received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently the 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Public collections 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.

After leaving Yale and a three-year residence in London, she returned to New York and started making trips around America in order to take photographs, resulting in a body of work that exists both within and outside the documentary tradition. In 1987, her travels took her over most of the country, sparked by a newly found patriotism as well as a commitment to furthering photographic literacy through her work.

Lipper’s practice was to travel on small rural roads, yet she also wanted to stay longer in one environment in order to execute a project with more depth. A series of chance events led to her visiting Grapevine, a small unincorporated town in West Virginia, where she was immediately adopted by most of the inhabitants and, in particular, by a certain family.(...)

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