Photograph of The Last Poets with Amiri Baraka: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of The Last Poets with Amiri Baraka: Date: 1969. Created by: Monroe S. Frederick II, American, born 1935. Subject of: David Nelson, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
Black-and-white group photograph of Amiri Baraka, American writer of poetry with members of New York-based spoken word group, The Last Poets. From left to right: David Nelson, Gylan Kain, Amiri Baraka, and Felipe Luciano. The photograph appears to have been altered with an approximately 2 inch wide section on the left side removed.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1969
- Created by: Monroe S. Frederick II, American, born 1935
- Subject of: David Nelson, American
- Subject of: Gylan Kain, American
- Subject of: Amiri Baraka, American, 1934 - 2014
- Subject of: Felipe Luciano, American, born 1947
- Owned by: Herbert Danska, American, born 1927
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 x 8 1/4 in. (20.3 x 21 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
- Topic: Identity
- Topic: Literature
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Resistance
- Object number: 2012.21.5.3
- 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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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: © Monroe S. Frederick II Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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