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