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Restaurant, Chicago

c. 1965

Mikki Ferrill

(American, b. 1937)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 13.7 x 24 cm (5 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2022.20
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Mikki Ferrill was part of a network of Black photojournalists who worked on Chicago’s South Side.

Description

Ferrill photographed on assignment for Ebony, Downbeat, and other publications but also produced personal work: in-depth explorations of South Side communities. In this exchange between a waitress and patron at a busy diner, the woman’s gaze and the taut relationship between their bodies describes a complex, tension-filled encounter, one all the more potent because it has been captured through a woman’s eye.
A horizontally oriented black-and-white photograph depicts people with medium to medium-dark skin tones in a crowded interior. Blurred figures in hats cluster on the left. In the center, a woman in a light apron talks to a man in a hat and coat. On the right, a man rests his face in his hand across from a woman in a white sweater. Text at bottom right credits Mikki Ferrill.

Restaurant, Chicago

c. 1965

Mikki Ferrill

(American, b. 1937)
America

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