Black Cook - Photographic Portraits by Artist KDD

Paper: 9 x 12 in
Image: 5.05 x 6.83 in
Price: NFS

She worked at Monticello.
A position of the past.
Woman dressed in period costume portraying a cook.

Black Cook

Working At Jefferson's Monticello Home

It was the summer of 1976 and I was doing some traveling with my mother and my aunt. We were doing the Washington, D.C. and surrounding area tourist thing.

We walked into the kitchen, which was a separate building off the main house, and there she was. A stately figure and proud.

Not being able to set up a tripod, I had to hand hold an eight of a second exposure time. I did some touch up on the image years later in a digital imaging manipulation program.

I would like to get back in the area again and see what I can find this time.

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