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- Exhibition
- Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
- Photograph by
- Lee, Zun, Canadian, born 1969
- Subject of
- Garcia, Billy
- Garcia, Esmeralda, American
- Date
- ca. 2012
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- H x W: 6000 pixels × 4000 pixels
- File size: 68.7 MB
- Caption
- Zun Lee’s portfolio, Father Figure (2011–2015), centers on Black fathers with their children in cities across the country. As the artist states, “Rather than accumulate a series of portraits, my aim was to build trusted relationships and immerse myself in these fathers’ lives to get a sense of how they negotiate their daily spheres not just as fathers but also as Black men.” As a form of self-reflection and participatory observation, Lee challenges cultural assumptions about Black males as men, friends, and fathers. He says he “investigates Black everyday life and family spaces as sites of intimacy, belonging, and insurgent possibility against cultural displacement and erasure.”
- Description
- A digital image of Billy Garcia and his daughter, Esmeralda. Garcia holds his hand up to a car window, and Esmeralda, visible through the ajar door, holds her hand up to his.
- 68.7 MB
- Place depicted
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Portfolio/Series
- Father Figure
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- digital images
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Children
- Families
- Fatherhood
- Photography
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Zun Lee
- Object number
- 2016.52.13
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Zun Lee
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




