Poster for The Black Moses of Soul, Isaac Hayes Special: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Movie poster with central illustration of Isaac Hayes, arms raised, holding a microphone. He is wearing gold chains across his waist and chest. Title information in white and black, above and below image [THE BLACK MOSES / OF SOUL / ISAAC / HAYES / special] Image and title information on a purple and black patterned rectangular background. Black text above image [The Superbad Music Event Of A Lifetime! / SEE AND HEAR ISSAC HAYES UP CLOSE AS HE SINGS, RAPS / AND PLAYS SUCH HEAVIES AS "THE LOOK OF LOVE", "BY THE / TIME I GET TO PHOENIX", "I STAND ACCUSED", "LIGHT MY / FIRE" AND MANY, MANY MORE.] Billing block at bottom in black text. Handwritten 40 in pencil in bottom right corner.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1973
• Designed by: Creative Cinema Campaigns
• Subject of: Isaac Hayes, American, 1942 - 2008
• Type: posters
• Medium: lithographic ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 41 1/8 x 27 1/8 in. (104.5 x 68.9 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Topic: Soul (Music)
• Object number: 2010.7.51.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Leith Adams
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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