Ed Bullins, Playwright: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Black and white photograph of Ed Bullins. Bullins is seen from the waist up wearing a black turtleneck shirt. He is looking at the viewer with his hands clasped behind his back. He stands in front of a textured wall of torn paper painted in alternating places with shiny, dark spray paint. The image is bordered in a narrow black line and is centered on a white background. Below the image in the bottom of the page is black handwritten text with the title and date [Ed Bullins - playwright - '80']. On the back of the photograph is stamped text in black ink [© ANTHONY BARBOZA/BARBOZA'S STUDIO/108 EAST 16th STREET/NEW YORK, N. Y. 10003/REP: KEN TEL. 674-5759/NOT FOR REPRODUCTION/WITHOUT PERMISSION/OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER/© ANTHONY BARBOZA].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1980
• Photograph by: Anthony Barboza, American, born 1944
• Subject of: Ed Bullins, American, born 1935
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 13 15/16 × 11 1/16 in. (35.4 × 28.1 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 5/16 × 10 1/16 in. (23.7 × 25.6 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Poetry
• Topic: Theatre
• Object number: 2014.157.6
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Anthony Barboza
• 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: © Anthony Barboza Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.