[Filmmaker with Ronald Gray]: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This black-and-white photograph depicts filmmaker Kathleen Collins with cinematographer Ronald Gray during the filming of Losing Ground. Collins is pictured center frame, standing next to a film camera. Wearing a light colored shirt and hoop earrings, she gazes through the eyepiece of a movie camera with her right eye. She grips the camera with her left hand. The camera is on a tripod. A man with a beard, cinematographer Ronald Gray, stands behind her, holding an eaten apple core in both hands at chest height. He wears a short sleeve shirt with a collar, open at the neck, and overalls. The cement pillar of a building in is the background.

A handwritten inscription on the back identifies Gray as the man on the right.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1982
• Photograph by: Louis H. Draper, American, 1935 - 2002
• Subject of: Ronald Gray, American
• Subject of: Kathleen Collins, American, 1942 - 1988
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 7 1/4 × 9 9/16 in. (18.4 × 24.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.2 × 25.3 cm)
• Place captured: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2016.64.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Estate of Louis H. Draper
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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