<I>The Suburbia Portfolio: Untitled 40</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2006; printed 2016
name: label: Photograph by
content: Sheila Pree Bright, American, born 1967
label: Subject of
content: President Barack Obama, American, born 1961
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified
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 sitting room. At proper left is a carved marbletop coffee table with a selection of magazines arranged across its long end, all featuring President Obama or the Obama family on the cover. On the table behind the magazines is a slender vase. Next to the table at the proper left, mostly out of frame, a pair of crossed legs are just visible. In the background, on the other side of the room from the coffee table, a teal blue upholstered armchair is placed in the corner, and sunlight streams into the room from nearby windows. The room has hardwood floors.
title: label: Title
content: Digital print from the Suburbia Portfolio
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Architecture
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: 2016.55.10
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)