Photograph of Coke La Rock inside 1520 Sedgewick, #2A: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A color Polaroid of Coke La Rock owned by DJ Kool Herc. The image depicts La Rock inside apartment 2A of the Bronx apartment complex at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. La Rock is captured from the knees up, standing in front of a filled bookshelf. He is wearing a grey winter trench coat over dark pants and a layered fit of a white shirt, a beige sweater with the collar over the trench coat and a red V-neck garment. La Rock has black frame glasses, two necklaces with one significantly larger than the other, and his hands are in the pockets of the coat. The image is printed on semi-gloss double photographic paper.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1976
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Coke La Rock, American, born 1955
• Subject of: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, American, founded 1967
• Owned by: DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American, born 1955
• Type: instant camera photographs
• Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (image): 3 1/2 × 2 5/8 in. (8.9 × 6.7 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 4 × 3 7/8 in. (10.2 × 9.8 cm)
• Place captured: Bronx, New York City, Bronx County, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: DJs (Musicians)
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
• Topic: Urban life
• Object number: 2022.73.8
• 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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