Object Details
- Description
- Two inkjet prints, one signed (.1) and one work print (.2) of a color photograph portrait of Snoop Dogg taken in New York City in 1992. Snoop Dogg is pictured center frame against a green background, looking at the camera. He wears a dark-colored baseball cap with an S on the front and a jacket layered over sweatshirts. A necklace with a medallion in the shape of a marijuana leaf is just visible inside the collar of the jacket. The image is signed on the front by the photographer and an inscription on the verso by Bill Adler identifies the subject, location, date and photographer.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Michael Benabib, American, born 1962
- Subject of
- Snoop Dogg, American, born 1971
- Date
- 1992; printed 2003
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (2015.132.125.1 Sheet): 14 5/16 × 11 in. (36.4 × 27.9 cm)
- H x W (2015.132.125.1 Image): 13 5/16 × 10 3/4 in. (33.8 × 27.3 cm)
- H x W (2015.132.125.2 Sheet): 17 × 11 in. (43.2 × 27.9 cm)
- H x W (2015.132.125.2 Image): 13 9/16 × 10 3/4 in. (34.5 × 27.3 cm)
- Type
- portraits
- inkjet prints
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