<I>James Van Der Zee photographs Eubie Blake</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1981
name: label: Photograph by
content: John Loengard, American, born 1934
label: Subject of
content: Eubie Blake, American, 1887 - 1983
label: Subject of
content: James Van Der Zee, American, 1886 - 1983
label: Subject of
content: The Van der Zee Foundation, American
notes: label: Description
content: This gelatin silver print depicts a crowded room of bystanders, lined along the left and right sides of the frame, observing and capturing the process of the centrally placed photographer, James Van Der Zee, as he photographs Eubie Blake. The central point of focus in the image is Eubie Blake who remains seated in the glow of deliberately placed studio lighting fixtures in front of a backdrop used to create the illusion of an elaborate interior room. Van Der Zee sits on a stool in the foreground of the image, mostly in silhouette, with his PL arm reaching to adjust the standing camera just left of the center of the image. A woman, Van Der Zee's wife Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee, stands behind Van Der Zee's camera to assist his process and is slightly out of focus.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Jazz (Music)
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1969-2001
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.166.8
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © John Loengard
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 (sheet): 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 11 11/16 × 17 7/8 in. (29.7 × 45.4 cm)