Strange Fruit
Artist
Hank Willis Thomas
(American, born 1976)
Date2011
MediumDigital c-print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 40 × 20 in. (101.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Frame: 41 × 21 × 2 in. (104.1 × 53.3 × 5.1 cm)
Overall, Frame: 41 × 21 × 2 in. (104.1 × 53.3 × 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineGift of Meredith and Brother Rutter
Object number2018.26
On View
Not on viewLabel TextHank Willis Thomas American, born 1976 Strange Fruit, 2011 Digital c print (photograph) “What happens when the visual legacy of American lynching collides with the visual legacy of a slam dunk?” This is the question posed by contemporary artist Hank Willis Thomas in Strange Fruit. Like many of Thomas’s photographs, the work provocatively explores the black male body as a site of violence, spectacle, and commercial profit. As Thomas says, “I take pleasure in talking about things that people say we don’t need to talk about anymore.” Gift of Meredith and Brother Rutter 2018.26
