Photograph of Queen Latifah and associates, cover shoot for The Takeover: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black and white photograph of Queen Latifah and associates.

Queen Latifah is standing in the center of the image. She is wearing a white button down shirt, a black suit jacket, black pants, and black heels. She has shoulder length hair. Her arms are down by her sides and her feet are spread apart. She is standing on a decorative rug and there is a table around her that is almost a full circle. There is an opening in the front. There is a light fixture hanging down from the ceiling and there are tall windows covered in blinds in the background. She is surrounded by twenty-four (24) male and female associates, standing and sitting around the outside of the table. The mean are wearing white shirts, suits, and ties, and the women are wearing white shirts, suit jackets, skirts, tights, and black shoes. The women in the front are sitting with one leg crossed over the other.

There is not border around the image. The back of the photograph is white. There are small tears, rip, and creases in several areas. There is an inscription by Bill Adler on the bottom right side, handwritten in black ink. There is another inscription by another hand handwritten vertically up the bottom right side in blue ink.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2000
• Photograph by: Michael Benabib, American, born 1962
• Subject of: Queen Latifah, American, born 1970
• Type: portraits
• Type: inkjet prints
• Medium: ink on paper on Fome-Cor (TM)
• Dimensions: H x W: 26 1/16 × 30 1/16 × 3/16 in. (66.2 × 76.3 × 0.5 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Musicians
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2015.132.109
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Michael Benabib Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.