Her lavishly produced photographs give visual language to previously unseen histories. When she decided to leave fashion and start producing her own photography, she landed her work in exhibitions at the Tate, the Nasher, and the Studio Museum of Harlem.
She spent the ’80s and ’90s in Paris at the center of the fashion world, shooting editorials for the glossy magazines. It’s difficult to imagine how a woman like Cox could feel insecure. “He said, ‘Why are you waiting for the world to validate you?’ And I was like, ‘Oh my god, he’s talking directly to me.” Listening to the slow-talking German spiritual leader, she gradually calmed down. In the midst of her episode, she put on an audiobook, Eckhart Tolle’s Living the Liberated Life and Dealing with the Pain-Body. Artists Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, and Renee Cox Called for Aunt Jemima's Liberation Years Ago
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