New York Awards Ball, Brooklyn, NY, 2000: Museum Object and Cultural History
New York Awards Ball, Brooklyn, NY, 2000: Date: 2000. Photograph by: Gerard H. Gaskin, Trinidadian American, born 1965. Subject of: Unidentified.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white photographic print portrait of an unidentified man at the New York Awards Ball in Brooklyn in 2000. The man is depicted just to the right of center frame, in the corner of a tiled room. He wears a double-breasted overcoat in a houndstooth plaid pattern with fur collar over a knit turtleneck. He has a brimmed hat in a similar houndstooth plaid pattern worn at a slant over his proper left eye, with a peacock feather tucked in the brim. He stands looking straight at the camera, his proper right hand resting on the tiled wall next to him. Another man can be seen beyond the doorframe in the background just behind the subject's left shoulder. There are no inscriptions, front or back.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2000
- Photograph by: Gerard H. Gaskin, Trinidadian American, born 1965
- Subject of: Unidentified
- Printed by: Light Work, American, founded 1973
- Type: portraits
- Type: inkjet prints
- Medium: ink on Canson Baryta photographique paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet) : 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Image) : 12 5/8 × 19 in. (32.1 × 48.3 cm)
- Place captured: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Dance
- Topic: Fashion
- Topic: Gender
- Topic: Identity
- Topic: LGBTQ
- Topic: Music
- Object number: 2019.71.25
- 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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