Chromogenic print of The Last Mr. Bigg in Mobile, Alabama: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Bigg is pictured seated, wearing a green Chicago White Sox jacket and hat, and smoking.

He has a white gauze bandage over his proper right eye, with black sunglasses on top. The green baseball cap reads [SOX] diagonally in white. He is wearing a white ribbed shirt under the green jacket. There is a red "C" on the left side of the jacket, outlined in white and then yellow. The word [SOX] is on top of the "C" in white with a yellow outline. He has a goatee and long fingernails. He is holding a cigarette in his mouth with his right hand. His left hand is making a fist and is on top of a newspaper on his lap. He is sitting in a white chair and there is some house siding and a window visible behind him.

There is an inscription on the verso, handwritten by Bill Adler, identifying the subject, location, date and photographer.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: February 2005
• Photograph by: Gregory L Davenport Jr., American, born 1977
• Subject of: The Last Mr. Bigg, American, ca. 1970 - 2015
• Type: chromogenic color prints
• Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
• Place captured: Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Musicians
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2015.132.214
• 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: © Gregory L. Davenport Jr. Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.