These portraits interrogate the power of celebrity in America

America is flawed – that’s no secret. Yet, what photographer Dana Lixenberg’s candid body of work reveals is that we cannot fully distance ourselves from its complexities. The contradictions and truths we treat as new revelations have long been embedded in US culture. From her intimate photographs of daily life in a Los Angeles housing project to her portraits of some of America’s most notorious figures, from P Diddy to read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (13 images)nbsp;