Marquise, Manhattan, NY, 2018: Museum Object and Cultural History
Marquise, Manhattan, NY, 2018: Date: 2018. Photograph by: Gerard H. Gaskin, Trinidadian American, born 1965. Subject of: Marquise Vilsón, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
A color photographic print portrait of Marquise Vilsón, an actor, activist and man of trans experience, captured in Manhattan in 2018. Vilsón is pictured from the waist up, standing in front of a dark grey background. He wears a white shirt, unbuttoned to the waist to show his tattooed chest and two long silver necklaces. One has a key-shaped pendant and the other a medallion with [M] in the middle. He looks straight ahead at the camera. There are no inscriptions, front or back.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2018
- Photograph by: Gerard H. Gaskin, Trinidadian American, born 1965
- Subject of: Marquise Vilsón, American
- Printed by: Light Work, American, founded 1973
- Type: portraits
- Type: inkjet prints
- Medium: ink on Canson Baryta photographique paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet) : 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet) : 19 × 12 11/16 in. (48.3 × 32.2 cm)
- Place captured: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Dance
- Topic: Fashion
- Topic: Gender
- Topic: Identity
- Topic: LGBTQ
- Object number: 2019.71.9
- 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: © Gerard Gaskin Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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