Nance’s photographs examine ways that people of color practice religions connected with their African heritage. In Community Baptism, Baba Ishangi Leads Exercise, Nance presents a nontraditional scene of a group of men, women, and children on a beach, mostly barefoot, who take part in a rite of renewal. The photographer’s shadow at the lower right reveals that she, too, is part of the image.
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
- Title
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Community Baptism, Baba Ishangi Leads Exercise
- Artist
- Date
- 1986
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 16 x 20 in. (40.7 x 50.8 cm.)
- Copyright
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© 1986, Marilyn Nance
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of the artist
- Mediums Description
- gelatin silver print
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Figure group
- Landscape – New York
- Ceremony – religion – baptism
- Landscape – beach – Riis Beach
- Recreation – sport and play – exercising
- Object Number
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1994.49.1
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
