Photo of collection object Not Gone With The Wind, Lefferts House, Brooklyn
Nona Faustine (née Simmons). Not Gone With The Wind, Lefferts House, Brooklyn, 2016. Chromogenic photograph, sheet: 27 15/16 × 42 in. (71 × 106.7 cm) image: 26 5/8 × 40 in. (67.6 × 101.6 cm). Emily Winthrop Miles Fund, 2017.41a. ©Nona Faustine Simmons © artist or artist's estate.

Not Gone With The Wind, Lefferts House, Brooklyn

2016

Nona Faustine (née Simmons)

American, born 1977

Photography

In this series of self-portraits, Nona Faustine inserts her own body into the history and architecture of slavery in New York City. In two photographs, she poses defiantly outside the Lefferts House in nearby Prospect Park. The house was home to descendants of the prominent namesake Dutch landowners and more than a dozen enslaved people between the 1780s and 1827, when slavery was abolished in New York. The interlaced children’s shoes, cast-iron skillet, and smoking revolver add a narrative dimension to the photographs, alluding to the ways Black women experienced and resisted the horrors of enslavement and carry its legacies today.
Classification
Photograph
Formatted Medium
Chromogenic photograph
Dimensions
sheet: 27 15/16 × 42 in. (71 × 106.7 cm) image: 26 5/8 × 40 in. (67.6 × 101.6 cm)
Departments
Photography
Accession Number
2017.41a
Credit Line
Emily Winthrop Miles Fund
Rights Statement
© artist or artist's estate
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