<I>Kharmony, LA Pride, Los Angeles, CA, 2020</I>
date: label: Date
content: June 14, 2020
name: label: Photograph by
content: Stephanie Mei-Ling, American, born 1979
label: Printed by
content: LuxLab, American
label: Subject of
content: Kharmony Fortune, American
label: Subject of
content: Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles, American, founded 2013
notes: label: Description
content: A color photograph titled “Kharmony, LA Pride, Los Angeles, CA 2020,” by Stephanie Mei-Ling. The photograph, taken at the All Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles on June 14, 2020, depicts protestor Kharmony Fortune. Fortune is centrally depicted and is shown from the waist up. She is facing the viewer with her arms are held akimbo. She is wearing turquoise blue bottoms and a white, cropped tank top with the text [PRIDE] printed across the chest in large, rainbow striped letters. She is also wearing a large, wire wrapped, green stone pendant around her neck, a pair of yellow mirrored sunglasses tucked into her waistband, and a protective facemask over the lower half of her face. The face mask is heavily beaded with diagonal, rainbow stripes made from stitched seed beads. Each color stripe is divided by a thin black stripe of seed beads. The beading terminates in beaded rainbow fringe around the bottom edge of the mask. Her hair is arranged into seven Bantu knots. One knot, above her proper left ear, is embellished with a cowrie shell. Fortune is standing next to a partially visible tree trunk next to her proper left arm. In the background is a paved street lined with low rise buildings, parked cars, and trees. A large white sign covering one storefront window reads [BLM] next to a heart symbol. The back of the photograph is white and plain.
place: label: Place captured
content: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Fashion design
label: Topic
content: LGBTQ
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Race relations
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Black Lives Matter
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: 2021.64
objectType: label: Type
content: pigment prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Stephanie Mei-Ling
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 (Image): 10 × 7 13/16 in. (25.4 × 19.8 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 10 7/8 × 8 3/4 in. (27.7 × 22.2 cm)