Ming Smith

Leopard Shirt Man, in Front of Apollo, Harlem, NY

c. 1975

A woman in a leopard-print top pulls a rolling bag while people walk past under a streetlight.
A woman in a leopard-print top pulls a rolling bag while people walk past under a streetlight.

Ming Smith, Leopard Shirt Man, in Front of Apollo, Harlem, NY, c. 1975. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in. (50.5 × 40.5 cm) Image: 18 3/8 × 12 5/8 in. (46.7 × 32.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2017.188. © Ming Smith

Recto

Not on view

Date
c. 1975

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in. (50.5 × 40.5 cm) Image: 18 3/8 × 12 5/8 in. (46.7 × 32.1 cm)

Accession number
2017.188

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Ming Smith

API
artworks/56151




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