Celia Cruz
date: label: date made
content: 2012
name: label: referenced
content: Cruz, Celia
label: maker
content: Weingarten, Robert I.
notes: label: Description
content: Created by compositing photographs of artifacts held by the National Museum American History, this massive photograph, 90X60 inches, celebrates the life and work of Celia Cruz.
label: Description
content: In 2012, the National Museum of American History held an online vote in which the public to selected Cruz from among four other historical figures to be the subject of a new photographic work. Weingarten produced this work especially for NMAH after Cruz’s fans overwhelmingly rallied to vote for her representation.
label: Description
content: Weingarten’s series, Portraits Without People, was a way of creating visual biographies of individuals by combining photographs of objects, documents, and locations that shaped their personal and professional lives. In Cruz’s portrait we see iconic clothes, shoes, headwear, her band and an award that together represents her public and professional life. The small religious figures and her marriage certificate note the religious and personal relationships that were important to her.
label: Description
content: https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2012/10/celia-cruz-portrait-unveiled.html
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Musicians
label: Subject
content: Hispanics
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert Weingarten
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0120.0001
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0120.0001
label: accession number
content: 2019.0120
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pigment print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 90 in x 60 in x 1 in; 228.6 cm x 152.4 cm x 2.54 cm