Back in the Days: Museum Object and Cultural History
Back in the Days: Date: 1981; printed 2021. Photograph by: Jamel Shabazz, American, born 1960. Subject of: Unidentified Child or Children.
The object in the museum catalogue
This is a color archival pigment print from the negative. The photograph depicts a full-length image of two youths as they pose on a busy sidewalk in Times Square, each in a b-boy stance with arms crossed and one foot slightly forward. The youth on the left is dressed in a white tank top, black pants, and teal low-top sneakers with dark blue fat laces. shoes. He is accessorized with three necklaces, a bracelet, and a black belt with a gold-colored [$] belt buckle. The youth on the right is dressed in a red, ¾ sleeve shirt, blue jeans, and white Adidas with wide, red laces. He is wearing a belt with a Puerto Rican flag on his proper left side, and a cloth hanging out of his backside pocket. Both of them are wearing low-top sneakers and caps in the style of a Kangol Ventair.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1981; printed 2021
- Photograph by: Jamel Shabazz, American, born 1960
- Subject of: Unidentified Child or Children
- Type: pigment prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: pigment-based ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
- Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Cultural Place: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Break dancing
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Fashion
- Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Urban life
- Topic: Youth
- Object number: 2021.69.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Jamel Shabazz
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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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: © Jamel Shabazz Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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