Brooklyn Museum: Photography: Untitled (Man Smoking/Malcolm X), from the Kitchen Table series

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Untitled (Man Smoking/Malcolm X), from the Kitchen Table series

One of Weems’s best-known bodies of work, The Kitchen Table series explores human experience not only from the vantage point of female subject and viewer, but also from an African American point of view. The series revolves around a woman played by the artist. Each setting includes the same table with an interrogation light overhead. An individual generally appears with the artist in each frame; there is also a place for the viewer at the near end of the table. In this instance, Weems sits—perhaps wearing her “poker face”—in front of a Malcolm X photograph as she plays a game of cards with her male companion over cigarettes and alcohol.

Artist: Carrie Mae Weems, American, born 1953
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dates: 1990
Collections: Photography
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 1991.168
Credit Line: Caroline A.L. Pratt Fund
Copyright: © Carrie Mae Weems
Image: Overall, 1991.168_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2008

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