Photograph of Nina Simone recording the song "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood": Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Nina Simone recording the song "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood": Date: 1964. Created by: Bernard Gotfryd, Polish American, 1924 - 2016. Subject of: Nina Simone, American, 1933 - 2003.
The object in the museum catalogue
A gelatin silver print of Nina Simone during the recording of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." The black-and-white image depicts Simone on the left side of the image, standing in the doorway of a recording booth, the hanging microphone visible through the window in the front of the booth. Simone stands with her hands in front of her, holding a piece of paper. The top of a black grand piano is in the foreground. A stamp on the verso reads [Please Credit: / Photo by / Bernard Gotfryd].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1964
- Created by: Bernard Gotfryd, Polish American, 1924 - 2016
- Subject of: Nina Simone, American, 1933 - 2003
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Popular music
- Topic: Resistance
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2011.132.6.1
- 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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