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 photographic print of Nina Simone captured during the recording of the song "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." Simone is pictured in the center of the image, seated in a folding chair next to a music stand. Her legs are crossed at the knee adn she holds a sheet of paper in her hand. In the foreground, two individuals are partially visible on either side of the frame. 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: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 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: 2011.132.6.4
- 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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