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Riverside Scene
2021
Tyler Mitchell
Tyler Mitchell (American, b. 1995)
Photography
Riverside Scene, 2021. Tyler Mitchell (American, b. 1995). Inkjet print; framed: 163.8 x 205.7 x 6.3 cm (64 1/2 x 81 x 2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2021.178 Born and raised in Atlanta, Tyler Mitchell in this staged scene transforms the Georgia landscape, a place of historical trauma for Black people, into an Eden that offers them instead leisure, refuge, and rootedness. Mitchell imbued the image with a soft focus and misty golden glow that evoke the languor of a humid summer day in Georgia and the haziness of an imagined memory. In 2018 at age twenty-three, Tyler Mitchell was the first Black photographer to shoot a cover for Vogue in the magazine’s 126-year history.
- Maker/Artist
- Tyler Mitchell
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- inkjet print
- Dimensions
- Framed: 163.8 x 205.7 x 6.3 cm (64 1/2 x 81 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 2021.178
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
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