Self-portrait in Mirror
1964
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1964
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Self-portrait in Mirror is a 1964 photographic by Armet Francis, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Armet Francis made this photo in 1964. He’s behind the camera, looking at himself in a mirror. The camera is a Yashica-Mat LM, a simple mechanical model with a light meter inside. Francis grew up in Jamaica, moved to London at ten, and started as a teen assistant in a West End studio. This picture shows him setting up the shot, using the mirror to show himself and his world at once. The scene quietly pushes back on the idea of a divided society at the time. Look up Francis, Armet.
A black-and-white photograph shows a young Black man in a striped t-shirt standing before a mirror, looking through the viewfinder of a camera mounted on a tripod. Behind him, a young white woman lies on a bed, and the room features floral-patterned wallpaper. The image was created using a Yashica-Mat LM camera with an inbuilt light meter. The photograph was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the Staying Power project, which documents Black British experiences from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Armet Francis made a single black-and-white photograph in 1964 titled Self-portrait in Mirror.
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