Artist
Larry Cook
Chester, from the series "Let My Testimony Sit Next To Yours"
Date2022
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage Size: 40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2023.013.2
ClassificationsPhotographs
Locations
- Currently Not on View
DescriptionThe series "Let My Testimony Sit Next To Yours" arose from Larry W. Cook reconnecting with his family. Portraits of the artist’s father appear among landscapes—vast forests, cotton fields, and lands where his ancestors would have walked—and archival family letters and photographs.
Cook traveled to the origin places of his paternal family lines from the South to the North, taking photographs of the various landscapes through cities across Georgia and South Carolina. During this time, his portrait photography became an unexpected but powerful source of healing from estranged relationships and complexities of fatherhood.
