<I>The Suburbia Portfolio: Untitled 28</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2006; printed 2016
name: label: Photograph by
content: Sheila Pree Bright, American, born 1967
label: Subject of
content: Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, French, 1848 - 1903
label: Subject of
content: Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
label: Subject of
content: Frida Kahlo, Mexican, 1907 - 1954
notes: label: Caption
content: Shoes recently kicked off, toys on the stairs, and a purse dangling from a newel post are all offered by Bright as traces of the Black domestic interior in The Suburbia Portfolio. With figures just out of frame or carefully obscured, these scenes maintain privacy for residents but also create an atmosphere of familiar intimacy and downtime.
label: Description
content: A color photograph of a white-carpeted library in a home. Across the entire back wall of the room are built-in wood bookshelves with an assortment of books arranged on the shelves, as well as other objects including a small round vase at top, a mask on the second row, and a tall vase at center. Some of the books are placed outward so that the covers are visible, including book on the artists Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo, a book titled "People of Peru", and a book titled "The End of Blackness." At center, in the foreground, is a low bamboo steamer chair with slat back and seat. At proper left, mostly out of frame, is a white sofa.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Black geographies
label: Topic
content: Domestic life
label: Topic
content: Interior design
label: Topic
content: Photography
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: The Suburbia Portfolio
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.55.9
objectType: label: Type
content: inkjet prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Sheila Pree Bright
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)