Roberta Flack: Museum Object and Cultural History
Roberta Flack: Date: 1971. Photograph by: Anthony Barboza, American, born 1944. Subject of: Roberta Flack, American, 1937 - 2025.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white photograph portrait of singer Roberta Flack. Flack stands center frame, arms raised just below shoulder height and spread wide. Her face is turned up and away from the camera, her mouth open in a slight smile. She wears a dark colored dress designed by Elaine Baskin Bey, with metallic embroidered details at the bodice and light colored panels mid-sleeve. On the verso is a black stamp for photographer Anthony Barboza, with details completed by hand in red and blue ink.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1971
- Photograph by: Anthony Barboza, American, born 1944
- Subject of: Roberta Flack, American, 1937 - 2025
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 10 3/4 × 10 11/16 in. (27.3 × 27.2 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2016.99.34
- 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: © Anthony Barboza Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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