Artist
Rashod TaylorAmerican, born 1985
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Hold On
- from the series Little Black Boy
Date2020, printed 2022
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 5/16 × 17 7/8 in. (36.3 × 45.4 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 13/16 in. (40.4 × 50.4 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 13/16 in. (40.4 × 50.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern
Object number2022.208
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
Filled with heart-wrenching tenderness and laced with the kind of anxiety only born of deep love, Rashod Taylor’s Little Black Boy series is a powerful record of his son’s childhood. Taylor, an editorial photographer for National Geographic, started photographing his son, LJ, the day he was born. But amid the civil unrest of 2020 and in response to the Black lives lost, Taylor’s own worries about his son grew. “He can’t live a carefree childhood as he deserves; there is a weight that comes with his blackness, a weight that he is not ready to bear,” the artist writes.
ProvenanceThe artist, 2022; [jdc Fine Art, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, 2022]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom center: Hold On, 2020 1/10 Rashod Taylor [signed] 2022
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom center: Rashod Taylor
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