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AdmittedKwame Brathwaite · 1964-68
You're looking at Untitled (Nomsa with Africa) — a photograph by Brathwaite, nineteen sixty-four to nineteen sixty-eight. It's inkjet print, printed two thousand twenty-four, about 38 by 38 centimeters. In the picture, look for the carved figure.
Medium Inkjet print, printed 2024 · Dimensions Image: 15 × 15" (38.1 × 38.1 cm) Frame: 23 1/4 × 23 1/4 × 1 1/2" (59.1 × 59.1 × 3.8 cm) · Credit Committee on Photography Fund
Hanging beside it in The Paul J. Sachs Galleries: Two in One Piko, Ever Young Studio, Accra
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled, Figurines, The Jester, Le Pistolero (The Gunman), The Serenity of the Scholar, Jeannette (I)
More by Kwame Brathwaite here: Untitled (Photo shoot at a school for one of the many modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s), Untitled (Sikolo with Carolee Prince Designs), Untitled (Nomsa with Earrings)
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.