<I>Night Feeding</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1973; printed 1982
name: label: Created by
content: Roy DeCarava, American, 1919 - 2009
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Child or Children
notes: label: Description
content: A black and white gelatin silver photograph titled “Night Feeding” by Roy DeCarava. The photograph captures a woman, with her face illuminated, looking down at an infant in her arms who she is breastfeeding. The photograph is signed by the artist in the front, lower right corner: [© 1982 Roy DeCarava].
place: label: Place captured
content: Brooklyn, New York City, Brooklyn County, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Motherhood
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, Gift of the Estate of Carroll Parrott Blue
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.39.10
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Roy DeCarava
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)