<I>'Kool Keith' / 'Black Elvis,' In My Bathroom '99</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1999; printed 2003
name: label: Photograph by
content: Ricky Powell, American, 1961 - 2021
label: Subject of
content: Kool Keith, American, born 1963
label: Subject of
content: Elvis Presley, American, 1935 - 1977
label: Subject of
content: Ricky Powell, American, 1961 - 2021
notes: label: Description
content: A color photograph of Kool Keith in the photographer's bathroom.
label: Description
content: The image presented is round, with a distorted, fisheye view of Kool Keith wearing a light tan leather jacket and looking into a white hand mirror that he holds with his proper left hand. His proper right hand is behind his head and he wears a black Elvis-style pompadour wig. The back of his hair is visible reflected in the small wall mirror behind him. The room is a small, white walled bathroom. The walls have been covered in posters and magazine tear-outs of sports stars, musicians, and women. A grey metal pipe runs vertically to the right of the wall mirror and the top of a toilet is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Keith stands below the shower curtain rod, from which hang one red and one white towel.
label: Description
content: There are two identical prints, 2015.132.355.1 and 2015.132.355.2. Beneath the image of .1 is a handwritten inscription reading ["KOOL KEITH" / "BLACK ELVIS" WHAT HAVE YOU... / IN MY BATHROOM '99 ... WHAT IS THIS, A BEAUTY SALON?] along with the photographer's signature [Ricky Powell / '03]. The second print has no inscriptions, front or back.
place: label: Place captured
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Hair
label: Topic
content: Hip-hop (Music)
label: Topic
content: Musicians
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Rappers (Musicians)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Eyejammie Hip-Hop Photography Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.132.355.1-.2
objectType: label: Type
content: chromogenic color prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Ricky Powell
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (2015.132.355.1 Sheet): 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (2015.132.355.1 Image): 9 1/2 × 14 in. (24.1 × 35.6 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (2015.132.355.2 Sheet): 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (2015.132.355.2 Image): 9 1/2 × 14 in. (24.1 × 35.6 cm)