Untitled: Museum Object and Cultural History
Untitled: Date: 1980s. Photograph by: John H. White, American, born 1945. Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men.
The object in the museum catalogue
This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of a man playing the tambourine. The man is wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses and a watch on his right wrist. He is holding the tambourine in his right hand and his left hand is raised in the middle of playing it. There are no inscriptions, front or back.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1980s
- Photograph by: John H. White, American, born 1945
- Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 8 15/16 × 12 13/16 in. (22.7 × 32.5 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
- Place collected: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2016.118.9
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of John H. White/Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist
- 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: © John H. White Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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