A young man with dreadlocks and glasses holding a skateboard in his right hand with the America…

Anjre Kerr

Artist Sheila Pree Bright (American, born 1967)

Date2007

Mediumchromogenic print

DimensionsSheet: 65 × 48 inches (165.1 × 121.9 cm)
Framed: 66 1/4 × 49 1/4 × 2 inches (168.3 × 125.1 × 5.1 cm)

Portfolio/Series"Young American" series

Credit LineGift of the artist.

Object number2019.1.1

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Copyright© Sheila Pree Bright. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextShelia Pree Bright’s work consistently asks the question, “What does it mean to be an American in the 21st century?” A self-described photographic anthropologist, Bright began the Young Americans series as a partial answer to that question. With a bold concept, an American Flag, and a laptop, Bright set out across America to photograph a diverse group of Generation Y and Millennial citizens and capture their thoughts and feelings about their country, and what it means to be an American in the years and months before the 2008 election. The sitters expressed their perspectives in a statement and posed in their chosen stance with the American flag. With the flag draped casually over his shoulders, Anjre Kerr poetically expresses himself: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses that I may be the greatest nation on earth, with equality for all regardless of color or race, united strong free and great./ I am an Artist./ I am a musician./ I am a skater/ I am young, wild and carefree./ I am a Black Man./ I am America.” Bright lives and works in Atlanta, GA and holds an MFA in photography from Georgia State University. Bright’s 2008 exhibition, Young Americans, debuted at the High Museum of Art. Her recent project, 1960Now, examines race, gender and generational divides to raise awareness of millennial perspectives on civil and human rights.

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