Ascent
John Edmonds
Photography
This pair of photographs—part of John Edmonds’s Du-Rags series—focuses on the headpiece as both a symbol of Black identity and as a means of suggesting a spiritual, majestic sense of being. The artist, who likens the du-rag to a crown, photographed sitters whom he encountered along Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn. The images emphasize the sitters’ vulnerability as well as the du-rag’s softness, echoed by the delicate silk surfaces of the works themselves, in a way that counters often-stereotyped views of Black masculinity.
MEDIUM
Inkjet print on silk
DIMENSIONS
Sheet: 63 5/8 × 42 3/8 in. (161.6 × 107.6 cm)
image: 49 1/2 × 40 1/16 in. (125.7 × 101.8 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Photography
ACCESSION NUMBER
2018.5.1
CREDIT LINE
Alfred T. White Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
John Edmonds (American, born 1989). Ascent. Inkjet print on silk, Sheet: 63 5/8 × 42 3/8 in. (161.6 × 107.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Alfred T. White Fund, 2018.5.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Photo courtesy ltd los angeles gallery, CUR.2018.5.1_ltdlosangelesgallery_photograph.jpg)
EDITION
Edition: 1 of 3, 2 AP
IMAGE
overall, CUR.2018.5.1_ltdlosangelesgallery_photograph.jpg. Photo courtesy ltd los angeles gallery
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