Photograph of Nina Simone with James Baldwin: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Nina Simone with James Baldwin: Date: 1965. 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 and James Baldwin. She wears a blouse, and he wears a jacket and a knit tie. The pair look off to their left. He smiles, and she makes a face.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1965
- Created by: Bernard Gotfryd, Polish American, 1924 - 2016
- Subject of: Nina Simone, American, 1933 - 2003
- Subject of: James Baldwin, American, 1924 - 1987
- 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: Civil Rights
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Literature
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Popular music
- Topic: Resistance
- Object number: 2011.132.5.3
- 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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