Poster advertising Marlon Riggs In Person!
date: label: Date
content: 1992
name: label: Printed by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Marlon Riggs, American, 1957 - 1994
notes: label: Description
content: A black-and-white poster with a non-glossy surface. The poster features a black-and-white photograph of Marlon Riggs. Riggs stands in the foreground looking at the camera, wearing a leather vest with nothing underneath, a necklace, and a fedora with bow on bottom of its proper left crown standing. Two men stand behind Riggs and hug with their faces looking towards the camera. They are all in front of a white background with graffiti on it. The graffiti designs include: stick figures holding hands a sun, text that reads [Brothers], etc. Text above the photograph in white and white-outlined type reads: [MARLON RIGGS / IN PERSON!]. Text in white type, below the photograph, reads: [TUE - WED, NOV 5-6]. Underneath, in a solid white line bordered box, in two columns, white type text reads: left column [Tuesday / TONGUES UNTIED and ANTHEM / TUES at 6:30 and 9:45 / ETHNIC NOTIONS, LONG TRAIN RUNNING and AFFIRMATIONS / TUES at 7:40 / Marlon Riggs will speak from 9:10 until 9:45]; right column [Wednesday / COLOR ADJUSTMENT In Marlon Riggs' brand new film viewers will see the familiar - primetime TV - with new insight, and will examine how network entertainment has shaped, mirrored and sometimes distorted the social reality of black/white relations since the civil rights movement. Color. 90 mins. 1991 / WED at 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 and 9:30 / Marlon Riggs will speak between 8:30 and 9:30]. Along bottom center is the Roxie Cinema logo, which reads: [ROXIE CINEMA / 3117 16th (at Valencia) 863-1087] in white type, with horizontal white lines running on top of the text Roxie Cinema. The back of the poster is white and mostly blank. There is a small inscription written in bottom left corner in pencil that reads: [1992].
place: label: Place depicted
content: San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Gender
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: LGBTQ
label: Topic
content: Men
label: Topic
content: Sexuality
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Advertisements
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Jack Vincent in memory of Marlon Riggs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.169.3
objectType: label: Type
content: posters
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 16 3/8 × 10 3/8 in. (41.6 × 26.4 cm)