Object Details
- Description
- The photograph depicts a full-length image of seven youths, three in the front row half crouched and four behind, standing on an AA and E train waiting platform in Manhattan. All of them, posed with their arms in the air and around one another, are dressed in hip-hop fashion. They are wearing shorts with low top sneakers and fat laces. Four of them are wearing polos with three wearing tank tops. For accessories, some are wearing rings, necklaces, bracelets, Cazal-glasses, and/or hats.
- The background is white subway tile with a three-tile wide strip of a darker color. There are several tiles missing on the left side. Above the group is a subway sign with black text [Downtown / & Brooklyn], a dark blue circle with white text [AA], a light blue circle with white text [E], and black text reading [To Chambers St / World Trade Center].
- There are no inscriptions on the print, front or back.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Jamel Shabazz, American, born 1960
- Subject of
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Date
- 1985; printed 2021
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
- Medium
- pigment-based ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
- Type
- pigment prints
- portraits
