<I>Evisu Ball, Manhattan, NY, 2010</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2010
name: label: Photograph by
content: Gerard H. Gaskin, Trinidadian American, born 1965
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified
label: Printed by
content: Light Work, American, founded 1973
notes: label: Description
content: A color photographic print of an unidentified participant waiting backstage at the Evisu Ball in Manhattan in 2010. The participating is pictured just to the right of center frame, standing next to a wall. She wears a black-and-white ensemble of houndstooth print fabric, with exaggerated puff sleeves and standing collar. The garment is cinched at the waist and chest with a black satin corset. Beneath the corset is a short, flared skirt ending in black ostrich feathers. She wears elbow-length black patent leather gloves and a houndstooth pillbox hat topped with a towering structure of black and white birds. Her face is painted white with black squares, and black feathers at the eyebrows, forehead, and jawline. Her proper left hand rests on the wall and her right hand rests on her right hip. Behind her and to the left of the image is a hallway crowded with people wearing street clothes passing in both directions through an open doorway.
place: label: Place captured
content: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: Gender
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: LGBTQ
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Nightlife
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Sexuality
label: Topic
content: Urban life
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: Legendary
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: 2019.71.17
objectType: label: Type
content: portraits
label: Type
content: inkjet prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Gerard Gaskin
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on Canson Baryta photographique paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet) : 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image) : 12 5/8 × 19 in. (32.1 × 48.3 cm)