Untitled: Museum Object and Cultural History
Untitled: Date: August 25, 2015. Photograph by: Devin Allen, American, born 1989. Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white digital photograph by Devin Allen of two unidentified women standing outside at the Afropunk Festival in Brooklyn, New York. The woman in the foreground wears a black short-sleeved dress shirt, round sunglasses, and has a nose ring and tattoos on her left arm. Her arms are crossed in front of her chest and her hairs is pulled in a top knot. The second woman stands slightly behind and clasps her left arm with her right hand. She wears a t-shirt with a printed design, a necklace, and several bracelets on her right wrist. She holds a cell phone in her right hand. Other people talking to each other in the background are out of focus.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: August 25, 2015
- Photograph by: Devin Allen, American, born 1989
- Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
- Type: portraits
- Type: digital images
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: H x W: 3264 pixels × 4896 pixels
- Dimensions: File size: 91.48 MB
- Place captured: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Gesture
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2016.98.18
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Devin Allen
- 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: © Devin Allen Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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