Photograph of Flavor Flav with sunglasses: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Flavor Flav with sunglasses: Date: 1995. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Flavor Flav, American, born 1959.
The object in the museum catalogue
A photograph of Flavor Flav with sunglasses. Flavor Flav is looking downwards in the photo and is wearing a black short sleeve shirt with a blue jersey and a large chain with a white clock. The back of the photograph is printed with the text [Long Life 100] and [Konica] in diagonal lines. The text [Living Color] is stamped twice in blue ink with [May 1995] stamped in blue ink below.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1995
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Flavor Flav, American, born 1959
- Subject of: Hot 97, American, founded 1948
- Type: chromogenic color prints
- Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: L x W: 6 × 4 in. (15.2 × 10.2 cm)
- Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
- Topic: Journalism
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Radio
- Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2020.30.3.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lisa G.
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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