Untitled: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black-and-white digital photograph by Devin Allen of a band performing on the sidewalk in Baltimore, Maryland. The band and their instruments are set up outside a brick building. In the foreground is a man with a guitar speaking into a microphone on a stand. He wears an argyle sweater, jeans, and a knit cap with the letter "R" painted on the front of it. A keyboard is in the far left foreground. A drum set is behind a man standing and holding a microphone in his hand, who stands behind the man with the guitar. A drummer whose face is obscured by a cymbal is sitting at the drum set. Several people stand in the right background out of focus.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: December 15, 2015
• Photograph by: Devin Allen, American, born 1989
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Subject of: Freddie Gray, American, 1990 - 2015
• Type: digital images
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: H x W: 4320 pixels × 6480 pixels
• Dimensions: File size: 160.22 MB
• Place captured: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2016.98.26
• 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

Sources and reuse

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.