Untitled (Earrings display at African Market, Harlem)

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A black-and-white photograph, Untitled (Earrings display at African Market, Harlem), by Kwame Brathwaite. The photograph depicts a woman reaching for a pair of earrings hanging from a line strung across a market booth. The woman, depicted from the waist up, is standing with her back to the viewer towards the back of the booth. She is reaching with her proper left hand for a pair of metal earrings hanging from the line closest to her. She is wearing a medium toned coat with a woolen texture and has a large bracelet with circular cutouts on her proper left wrist. Each of the four hanging lines in front of the woman is filled with rows of drop earring of different shapes, sizes, and materials, as well one beaded necklace on the far left. In the foreground of the image, is a fifth line of earrings strung across the booth, toward the front.

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