Photograph of Clive Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Clive Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica: Date: ca. 1967. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American, born 1955.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white gelatin silver print of a young Clive Campbell (later known as DJ Kool Herc). Campbell is facing forward and captured from the chest up. He wears a dark colored suit and tie with a white shirt.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1967
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American, born 1955
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 2 1/2 × 2 in. (6.4 × 5.1 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 2 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (6.7 × 5.7 cm)
- Place captured: Kingston, Jamaica, Caribbean, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: DJs (Musicians)
- Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
- Topic: Migrations
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2022.73.1
- 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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