Portrait of Whitney Houston: Museum Object and Cultural History
Portrait of Whitney Houston: Date: February 1982; printed 1990s. Photograph by: Jack Mitchell, American, 1925 - 2013. Subject of: Whitney Houston, American, 1963 - 2012.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white digital print photograph of Whitney Houston. She is featured with her body in profile and her head turned towards the camera. She is wearing a turtleneck. The back of the photograph has a Jack Mitchell stamp in the bottom right corner and the number [5709] in the top left corner.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: February 1982; printed 1990s
- Photograph by: Jack Mitchell, American, 1925 - 2013
- Subject of: Whitney Houston, American, 1963 - 2012
- Type: portraits
- Type: inkjet prints
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 19 × 13 in. (48.3 × 33 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2016.83.6
- 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: © Jack Mitchell, All Rights Reserved Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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