Miles Davis: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A gelatin silver print of Ron Carter playing the bass and, on his left, Miles Davis playing the trumpet. An unidentified man, head bowed, dominates the foreground of the photograph.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1960s
• Created by: Louis H. Draper, American, 1935 - 2002
• Subject of: Miles Davis, American, 1926 - 1991
• Subject of: Ron Carter, American, born 1937
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 11 x 7 7/16 in. (28 x 18.9 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 13 15/16 x 11 in. (35.4 x 27.9 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2013.66.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Nell Draper-Winston
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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