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Huxtables, Mom and Me

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Photography

My mother had the idea to shoot a portrait of me wearing this T-shirt printed with a Huxtable family portrait. As a child I watched The Cosby Show in order to escape the reality of my dismantled working-class family. My mother set up the camera in the bedroom doorway, facing a mirror reflecting part of her image. Both the mirror and the T-shirt are scratched, dusty, and fading in the light. In the text that I perform live, for this particular photograph I wrote, “Between my background and my foreground, I am not sure where I stand.”

—LaToya Ruby Frazier

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MEDIUM Gelatin silver print
DATES 2009
DIMENSIONS sheet: 15 x 19 1/4 in. (38.1 x 48.9 cm) frame: 24 5/8 x 28 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. (62.5 x 72.7 x 3.8 cm) mount: 24 x 28 in. (61 x 71.1 cm)  (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Photography
ACCESSION NUMBER 2011.63.3
CREDIT LINE Emily Winthrop Miles Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION LaToya Ruby Frazier (American, born 1982). Huxtables, Mom and Me, 2009. Gelatin silver print , sheet: 15 x 19 1/4 in. (38.1 x 48.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Emily Winthrop Miles Fund, 2011.63.3. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Image courtesy of the artist, CUR.2011.63.3_artist_photograph.jpg)
EDITION Edition: 5/8
IMAGE overall, CUR.2011.63.3_artist_photograph.jpg. Image courtesy of the artist
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RIGHTS STATEMENT ©LaToya Ruby Frazier
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