This photograph, taken 35 years after Malcolm X’s assassination—which happened 65 years ago today, s
This photograph, taken 35 years after Malcolm X’s assassination—which happened 65 years ago today, speaks to the enduring legacy of the Civil Rights leader. Carrie Mae Weems’s Kitchen Table series explores the activities that take place around a kitchen table and their relationship to identity. Here, Weems has added images to the wall behind, the largest of which features Malcolm X actively speaking. Weems herself sits before the image and she shares the table with an unnamed man smoking a cigarette. We can imagine the pair having a thoughtful discussion perhaps about the political nature of identity, a frequent theme of Weems’s work.Carrie Mae Weems (American, born 1953). Untitled (Man Smoking/Malcolm X), from the Kitchen Table series, 1990. Gelatin silver photograph. Brooklyn Museum, Caroline A.L. Pratt Fund, 1991.168. © artist or artist’s estate -- source link
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