Photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington and Clark Terry: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington and Clark Terry: Date: 1988. Photograph by: Bob Johnson. Subject of: Terri Lyne Carrington, American, born 1965.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white gelatin silver photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington and Clark Terry.
Dressed in black formalwear, Terri Lyne Carrington smiles as she poses for a photograph with jazz trumpeter, Clark Terry. Carrington’s dark hair is loose, and she wears a black tied ribbon at her neck, a white ruffled blouse, and black jacket. Clark Terry wears large square eyeglasses, a black bowtie, white shirt, long ornate necklace, and black suit jacket. Carrington and Terry are captured in front two boards and a rectangular poster (L’Amour) on the wall behind them.
On the white reverse of the photograph is an inscription in black felt tip pen: [Terri Lyne Carrington, Clark Terry / ’88]. A red ink stamp identifying the photographer, Bob Johnson, is marked near the bottom.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1988
- Photograph by: Bob Johnson
- Subject of: Terri Lyne Carrington, American, born 1965
- Subject of: Clark Terry, American, born 1920
- Type: black-and-white prints
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 9 1/2 × 6 9/16 in. (24.2 × 16.7 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
- Place captured: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Child musicians
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Men
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Musicians
- Object number: 2021.101.9
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Terri Lyne Carrington
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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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: © Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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