Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of MC Hammer in New York City
1988
New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A color photograph of MC Hammer. He is wearing black leather pants, a long black leather trench coat, and black shoes. He is also wearing tinted glasses, a watch, a bracelet, and several rings on both hands. He is standing on a sidewalk in NYC. The background is out of focus. He has a mustache. His proper right foot is turned to the side, his left leg is bent with his toes touching the ground, and his arms are out in front of him and to the side, mid-dance. There is a white border around the image. It is thicker on the top and bottom and thinner on the two sides. The back of the photograph has light grey text repeated upside down in diagonal lines. There are four yellow post-it notes on the top, two on either side. There is an inscription by Bill Adler on the bottom, handwritten in blue ink.
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Catalog reference: 2015.132.101
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