I Look Like My Momma (Self Portrait 1980)

Label

For this image, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell borrowed their mother’s fur coat and made up their face. Upon seeing the photograph, Terrell’s mother said that her child looked like her, motivating Terrell to choose the title. Terrell was originally inspired to make this self-portrait in response to Robert Mapplethorpe’s images of Black men, as well as a self-portrait in which Mapplethorpe wears makeup. Having made a place for their work within the history of gay photography, Terrell finds that the image they have developed for themself is tied to both their queer relationships and their biological family.

From the 2025 exhibition Visual Kinship, curated by Alisa Swindell, Associate Curator of Photography, Dr. Kimberly Juanita Brown, Dr. Thy Phu and Dr. Iyko Day

Course History

SART 30.01/SART 75.01, Photography II/III, Eva O'Leary, Fall 2022

WGSS 10.01, Sex, Gender, and Society, Francine A'Ness, Fall 2022

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 2.01, Introduction to Queer Studies, Eng-Beng Lim, Winter 2023

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Sex, Gender and Society, Zahra Ayubi, Summer 2024

First Year Student Enrichment Program, Francine A'Ness, Summer 2024

First Year Student Enrichment Program, Culture, Identity, Belonging, Francine A'Ness, Summer 2025

First Year Student Enrichment Program, Culture, Identity, Belonging, Rachel Obbard, Summer 2025

First Year Student Engagement Program, Culture, Identity, Belonging, Maria De Greiff, Summer 2025

College Course 26.01, What’s in Your Toolbox?, Casey Aldrich and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2025

Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies 65.07, Queer Popular Culture, Eng-Beng Lim, Fall 2025

Exhibition History

Femme is Fierce: Femme Queer Gender Performance in Photography, Class of 1967 gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 1-December 17, 2022.

Visual Kinship, Lathrop, Jaffe and Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30 - November 29, 2025.

Provenance

The artist, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, Detroit, Michigan; sold to present collection, 2022.

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