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1200 Meditation, Things My Mother Gave Me

2005
(American, b. 1965)
America, 21st century
inkjet print, Epson
Image: 43.5 x 59.9 cm (17 1/8 x 23 9/16 in.); Paper: 51.3 x 70 cm (20 3/16 x 27 9/16 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.)
Gift of Friends of Photography 2007.178
© Cecil McDonald Jr.
Impression: 1
Location: not on view
This artwork is known to be under copyright.

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The Chicago-based artist Cecil McDonald utilizes his training in fashion and photography to restage scenes from his family’s domestic life. His purposefully arranged, carefully lit scenes give the viewer a glimpse into the private world of the photographer’s family while calling attention to the themes of gender, race, and class. This colorful photograph, from McDonald’s well-known series “Domestic Observations and Occurrences,” portrays his two teenaged daughters interacting in their home. He complicates the boundaries between public and private for viewers by stylizing his family’s daily routine. Gift of Friends of Photography 2007.178
1200 Meditation, Things My Mother Gave Me

1200 Meditation, Things My Mother Gave Me

2005

Cecil McDonald

(American, b. 1965)
America, 21st century

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