Carrie Mae Weems’s 1990 image Untitled (Woman and daughter with makeup) is among a wide range of photographs by women donated to the Museum of Modern Art in New York by the collector Helen Kornblum. “All the images are organised around this question: ‘What is a feminist picture?’” writes Kornblum. This shot is one of 20 in Weems’s Kitchen Table Series. The tender scene illustrates one of the ways in which gender is learned and performed, while also celebrating the private subjectivity, beauty and inner lives of Black women. View gallery of images from Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum, on display until 10 October, here.

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