Photograph of Flavor Flav on set for the video 'Brothers Gonna Work It Out"
date: label: Date
content: May 1990
name: label: Photograph by
content: Michael Benabib, American, born 1962
label: Subject of
content: Flavor Flav, American, born 1959
label: Subject of
content: Public Enemy, American, founded 1982
label: Subject of
content: New York Police Department, American, founded 1845
notes: label: Description
content: A color photograph of Flavor Flav.
label: Description
content: He is wearing a red jacket, a red and white sideways baseball cap, and red sunglasses. He is also wearing red gloves, earrings, and has a watch on his proper right wrist. He is sitting in the driver's seat of a white police car. His proper right hand is on the steering wheel and his left hand, which is out of focus, is sticking out of the window and pointing up. There is a decal on the driver's side door which reads [POLICE / DEPARTMENT / CITY OF NEW YORK] with a logo. There are red lights on top of the car.
label: Description
content: There is a white border around the image. It is thinnest on the two sides, thicker on the top, and thickest on the bottom. The back of the photograph has light grey text repeated in diagonal lines. There are two pieces of tape at the top, one on either side, with a yellow post-it note underneath each of them. There is an inscription by Bill Adler at the bottom, handwritten in blue ink.
place: label: Place captured
content: Long Beach, Nassau County, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Gesture
label: Topic
content: Hip-hop (Music)
label: Topic
content: Musicians
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Rappers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Transportation
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Eyejammie Hip-Hop Photography 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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.132.87
objectType: label: Type
content: portraits
label: Type
content: inkjet prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Michael Benabib
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 16 7/16 × 11 in. (41.8 × 27.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 13 × 9 5/16 in. (33 × 23.7 cm)