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 seated in the foreground of the image, in front of an empty music stand. She is holding a sheet of paper and looking towards a man who is leaning down to talk to her. In the background are a group of three musicians, one with a guitar and one with an upright bass, along with microphones, amps, and other music equipment. 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: 2011.132.6.5
- 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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