<I>Untitled (Man smoking in a Ballroom)</I>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1965; printed 2016
name: label: Photograph by
content: Kwame Brathwaite, American, 1938 - 2023
label: Subject of
content: African Jazz-Arts Society and Studios, American, founded 1956
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
notes: label: Description
content: A black-and-white photograph, Untitled (Man smoking in a Ballroom), by Kwame Brathwaite. The photograph depicts a man seated on a folding chair, with his back to the viewer. His proper left elbow is propped on the backrest of the folding chair next to him and he is cradling the back of his head with his proper left hand. His face is turned slightly right, facing the front of the ballroom, and he is smoking a black, Apple style pipe with a metal band around the base of the shank. Smoke curls from the top of the pipe bowl. He is wearing a light toned, corduroy jacket, a collared shirt, and has a plain metal band on the ring finger of his proper left hand. In the background on the left, are other people seated in the rows in front of smoking man and two blurred individuals stand behind a square column at the center of the image. In the background on the left are stored and stacked pieces of furniture and a wall with long curtain panels. Above the smoking man are three rows of round ceiling fixtures. There are no marks or inscriptions, front or back.
place: label: Place captured
content: Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Associations and institutions
label: Topic
content: Black power
label: Topic
content: Photography
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Black is Beautiful
label: Movement
content: BAM (Black Arts Movement 1965-1976)
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: 2021.26.1
objectType: label: Type
content: portraits
label: Type
content: inkjet prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Courtesy of the Kwame Brathwaite Archive & Philip Martin Gallery, © Kwame Brathwaite
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: pigment on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 15 × 15 in. (38.1 × 38.1 cm)