<I>Hot Jazz</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1952
name: label: Photograph by
content: Hugh Cecil Lancelot Bell, American, 1927 - 2012
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
notes: label: Description
content: A black and white gelatin photograph of a jazz band performing at Circle in the Square, New York, 1952. Silhouetted against a hazy dark background, the band members wear dark suits with bright long sleeve shirts. From left to right: a man bends backwards at the knees as he blows into his clarinet, a man stands upright with a saxophone, a man sits or crouches to play the double bass, a man wearing eyeglasses sits at a drum set, a dark-haired man plays a guitar, and facing the guitarist, a dark-haired man plays the trombone. At bottom right of the image, the hands of a person out of frame are raised in the air. On verso, the title of the photograph is inscribed along the upper edge, and the artist’s mark: [HUGH BELL PHOTOGRAPHY] is stamped in black ink.
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: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Jazz (Music)
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Musicians
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, generously supported by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2019.85.6
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © The Estate of High Bell
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and gelatin on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 6 3/8 × 8 7/8 in. (16.2 × 22.6 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.3 cm)