Self Evident
Photograph
1995 (photographed), 2013 (printed)
1995 (photographed), 2013 (printed)
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Ingrid Pollard Ingrid was born in Guyana in 1953. Her photographic work explores Britain’s hidden histories associated with Africa and the Caribbean and is often personal, reflecting her own experiences as a black, British, woman artist. She has received a number of awards and commissions and has had her work published in numerous magazines and books. Her work is held by Arts Council England and the National Trust as well as by the V&A, which holds her series Pastoral Interludes.
Self-Evident is a series of eight portraits of black men and women posed in English countryside scenes. Each of them holds an object associated, with the Afro-Carribean diaspora. These range from tropical flowers and a conch shell to objects with more stereotypical connotations such as fried chicken and watermelon. These carefully composed, square format images will build on the V&A’s existing holdings by Pollard, which are made with a different technique of hand-coloured gelatin silver prints combined with text.
Self-Evident is a series of eight portraits of black men and women posed in English countryside scenes. Each of them holds an object associated, with the Afro-Carribean diaspora. These range from tropical flowers and a conch shell to objects with more stereotypical connotations such as fried chicken and watermelon. These carefully composed, square format images will build on the V&A’s existing holdings by Pollard, which are made with a different technique of hand-coloured gelatin silver prints combined with text.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | C-type print. |
| Brief description | Photograph by Ingrid Pollard from the series Self Evident, C-type print, 1995, printed 2013 |
| Physical description | A colour photograph of a woman wearing a white headscarf, a black and white striped top and white tunic trousers. She is holding a cane in one hand and a prickly pear in the other. She stands in front of a bush of flowers on a patio area. |
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| Credit line | Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. |
| Object history | The V&A acquired this photograph as part of the Staying Power project. Staying Power is a five year partnership between the V&A and Black Cultural Archives. The project aims to explore black British experience from the 1950s to the 1990s through photographs acquired by the V&A and oral histories conducted by Black Cultural Archives. |
| Historical context | Originally conceived as a series of small colour lightboxes displayed alongside large scale black and white prints of children. |
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| Summary | Ingrid Pollard Ingrid was born in Guyana in 1953. Her photographic work explores Britain’s hidden histories associated with Africa and the Caribbean and is often personal, reflecting her own experiences as a black, British, woman artist. She has received a number of awards and commissions and has had her work published in numerous magazines and books. Her work is held by Arts Council England and the National Trust as well as by the V&A, which holds her series Pastoral Interludes. Self-Evident is a series of eight portraits of black men and women posed in English countryside scenes. Each of them holds an object associated, with the Afro-Carribean diaspora. These range from tropical flowers and a conch shell to objects with more stereotypical connotations such as fried chicken and watermelon. These carefully composed, square format images will build on the V&A’s existing holdings by Pollard, which are made with a different technique of hand-coloured gelatin silver prints combined with text. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Ingrid Pollard Monograph (London, Autograph ABP: 1995), illustrated, pg. 15 |
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| Accession number | E.321-2013 |
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| Record created | May 21, 2013 |
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