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

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

Ryan Coogler is on the left side of the image. He is wearing a Black Panther t-shirt and a backwards black baseball cap. He is wearing a gold bracelet on his proper right wrist and is holding a piece of paper in his proper right hand. He is watching Letitia Wright, who is on the right side of the image, atop a blue platform. She is sitting in a black leather car seat and holding on to a car steering wheel with both hands. The wheel is attached to a blue stand mounted on the platform. She is wearing a pink mesh dress and skirt with black and white details and black boots. She is wearing a kimoyo bead bracelet on her proper left wrist. Her legs are bent and her feet are out in front of her as if on car pedals. The background is blue, with a screen depicting out of focus city lights at night.

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: 68.7 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: 2018.39.3.24
• 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.