Grandmaster Flash - musician: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Black and white photograph of the music group Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five. The portrait of the hip hop group features (from left to right) Raheim (born Guy Williams), Kidd Creole (born Nathaniel Glover), Grandmaster Flash (born Joseph Saddler), Cowboy (born Robert Keith Wiggins), Scorpio (born Eddie Morris), and Melle Mel (born Melvin Glover). Each group member wears a unique costume with leather and studs accents and boots with rhinestone appliques. They stand in front of a white background with graffiti patterns visible at the bottom of the backdrop. The image is bordered in a narrow black border on a white background. Below the image at the bottom is the title, date, and signature.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1984
• Photograph by: Anthony Barboza, American, born 1944
• Subject of: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, American, 1978 - 1988
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (image): 10 × 10 in. (25.4 × 25.4 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Disco (Music)
• Topic: Funk (Music)
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Musicians
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2014.152.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• 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: © Anthony Barboza Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.