<I>Untitled (Earrings display at African Market, Harlem)</I>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1967; printed 2019
name: label: Photograph by
content: Kwame Brathwaite, American, 1938 - 2023
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
label: Subject of
content: African Jazz-Arts Society and Studios, American, founded 1956
label: Subject of
content: Patrice Émery Lumumba, Congolese, 1925 - 1961
label: Subject of
content: Marcus Garvey, Jamaican, 1887 - 1940
label: Subject of
content: Carlos Cooks, Dominican American, 1913 - 1966
notes: label: Description
content: A black-and-white photograph, Untitled (Earrings display at African Market, Harlem), by Kwame Brathwaite. The photograph depicts a woman reaching for a pair of earrings hanging from a line strung across a market booth. The woman, depicted from the waist up, is standing with her back to the viewer towards the back of the booth. She is reaching with her proper left hand for a pair of metal earrings hanging from the line closest to her. She is wearing a medium toned coat with a woolen texture and has a large bracelet with circular cutouts on her proper left wrist. Each of the four hanging lines in front of the woman is filled with rows of drop earring of different shapes, sizes, and materials, as well one beaded necklace on the far left. In the foreground of the image, is a fifth line of earrings strung across the booth, toward the front. On the left side of the booth is a set of shelving with a calendar clipped to one of the shelves. On the right side of the booth is a plain wall with a rough oblong piece cut out of it. The back of the booth features a plain wall that has various event flyers, posters, maps, and photographs taped to it. Some of the events include: [NATURALLY ’66], [NATURALLY ’67], [GARVEY DAY / CELEBRATION], [a portrait of / PATRICE / LUMUMBA], [BUY BLACK], [SHEIK’S DANCE], and others. There are also photographs of Marcus Garvey, Carlos Cooks, and Patrice Lumumba and a magazine cover titled [EXTRA] with the byline [CARLOS COOKS[sic] DEATH] taped to the booth wall. There is a low shelf lining the back wall of the booth. Two paint cans, small earring display, a radio, a roll of paper towels, and small piles of paper sit on top of the shelf. The landscape oriented image has a thick white border. The back of the photograph is plain and white.
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: African diaspora
label: Topic
content: Associations and institutions
label: Topic
content: Black power
label: Topic
content: Fashion
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: 2021.26.12
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: 20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)