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Photographic print of Rob Base

January 3, 1989

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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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 black and white photograph of Rob Base captured on Stuart Street in Brooklyn. Base is captured in the center of the image, from the waist up, against a plain white interior wall. He is wearing a sweatshirt that reads [ROB BASE & D.J. E-Z Rock / It Takes Two] with a picture of Base with E-Z Rock in the center. He also wears a twisted gold chain with a Mercedes logo medallion. He looks straight at the camera and is posed with both hands raised in fists at shoulder height. He has a square shaped ring on his proper right hand and an oversized circular ring on his proper left hand. There are shadows on the wall behind him and to the left the edges of several picture frames and a lamp is visible. To the right is a potted vine growing over a ring form.

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Catalog reference: 2015.132.307

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