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A Young Muslim Woman in Brooklyn

1990

Chester Higgins

(American, b. 1946)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 22.9 x 17.8 cm (9 x 7 in.); Paper: 25.1 x 20.2 cm (9 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2021.137
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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The image, one of the artist’s best known and most often reproduced, is a portrait in which only the sitter’s eyes are visible.

Description

This woman wears a niqab, a veil worn in public by some Muslim women as a sign of religious piety. In his photojournalistic work, Chester Higgins Jr. chose to be an unseen observer. Here, in this more personal image, he enters directly into dialogue with the sitter, who boldly confronts the camera’s gaze.
A vertically oriented, black-and-white photograph portrait depicts a young woman with a dark skin tone looking directly toward us. She wears white fabric covering her head and the lower half of her face, leaving only a horizontal band across her dark, light-catching eyes visible. The white fabric drapes closely around her head and over her nose and mouth, creating soft shadows against the light cloth.

A Young Muslim Woman in Brooklyn

1990

Chester Higgins

(American, b. 1946)
America

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