Untitled: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Digital image scanned from a 35mm black and white negative of artist Twins Seven Seven shooting a home movie outside at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts during the 1974 annual summer session. Twins Seven Seven, who was a graphics instructor that summer, holds a camcorder to his face with both hands, his proper right eye looking through it while his proper left eye is closed. He wears a dark color, patterned poncho-like garment.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1974; scanned 2023
• Photograph by: Michael Fields, American, born 1947
• Subject of: Twins Seven Seven, Nigerian, 1944 - 2011
• Subject of: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, American, founded 1950
• Type: digital images
• Type: digital media - born analog
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: H x W: 4332 pixels × 5999 pixels
• Dimensions: File size: 76.16 MB
• Place captured: Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: African diaspora
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Craftsmanship
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Recreation
• Object number: 2025.59.121
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

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: © Michael Fields Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.