Digital film still of Ryan Coogler and Letitia Wright on the Black Panther set: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A digital film still of Ryan Coogler and Letitia Wright on the set of the film Black Panther.

The two are pictured standing at a table in an interior set for Shuri's lab. Coogler is in the center. He is wearing a black t-shirt, a grey sweatshirt tied around his waist, and a backwards blue baseball cap. He is looking down and pointing at props on the table in front of him. Wright, dressed as the character Shuri, is next to him on the right side of the image. She is wearing a sleeveless, high-collared orange overlay on top of a black jumpsuit with white stitching. She is wearing a black, white and red beaded collar necklace and has a kimoyo bead necklace on her proper left wrist. She is looking down at the props Coogler is pointing to on the table. White and grey pieces of the set are out of focus in the background. At the bottom left corner, a film camera is out of focus in the foreground of the image along with the shoulder of a crewmember in a blue shirt in the bottom right corner.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2017
• Photograph by: Matt Kennedy
• Produced by: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., American, founded 1939
• Directed by: Ryan Kyle Coogler, American, born 1986
• Distributed by: The Walt Disney Company, American, founded 1923
• Subject of: Ryan Kyle Coogler, American, born 1986
• Subject of: Letitia Michelle Wright, Guyanese British, born 1993
• Subject of: Ruth E. Carter, American, born 1960
• Type: film stills
• Type: digital images
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: H x W: 4000 pixels × 6000 pixels
• Dimensions: File size: 69.73 MB
• Place captured: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Comics and graphic novels
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2018.39.3.23
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Marvel Studios and The Walt Disney Company, © Marvel/ Matt Kennedy
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Marvel/ Matt Kennedy Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.