Photograph of Count Basie: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Count Basie: Date: 1935-1950. Photograph by: Calvert Studio, American. Subject of: Count Basie, American, 1904 - 1984.
The object in the museum catalogue
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Count Basie. Basie is depicted in a circular spotlight, against a dark background. The spotlight is cast over his body and creates a shadow on the wall behind. He is wearing a dark suit and holding a baton in his proper right hand. White cursive text, written in the negative, in the bottom left corner reads, [Calvert / Chicago]. There are no inscriptions on the back of the image.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1935-1950
- Photograph by: Calvert Studio, American
- Subject of: Count Basie, American, 1904 - 1984
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (11.4 × 8.9 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 5 × 4 in. (12.7 × 10.1 cm)
- Place made: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2013.46.25.9
- 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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