Photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington and Richard Pablo Landrum: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington and Richard Pablo Landrum: Date: 1977. Photograph by: G. Marshall Wilson. 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 playing the Conga drum with Richard Pablo Landrum.
In a bright room with cinder block walls, an adolescent Terri Lyne Carrington plays a conga drum. She is seated between four other musicians. There is a drummer at the drum set to her proper right and on her proper left Richard Pablo Landrum plays the Bongo drum set; behind Landrum stands a tambourine player wearing a color-block scarf; seated at Landrum’s proper left is a guitarist.
On the white reverse of the photograph is an inscription in turquoise felt tip pen at the top: [Terri Carrington, Richard Pablo Landrum / Ebony 4-77]. A black ink stamp identifying the photographer, G. Marshall Wilson, is marked in the middle.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1977
- Photograph by: G. Marshall Wilson
- Subject of: Terri Lyne Carrington, American, born 1965
- Subject of: Richard Pablo Landdrum, American, born 1939
- Type: black-and-white prints
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 6 × 9 in. (15.2 × 22.8 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.3 cm)
- Place captured: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Child musicians
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Men
- Topic: Music
- Object number: 2021.101.4
- 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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