Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
JDL and Tony Tone, Cold Crush Brothers
early 1980s
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 black and white photograph of Cold Crush Brothers members, JDL and DJ Tony Tone. They are standing in the center of the image against a dark background. JDL is on the left wearing a short leather coat, jeans, and black fingerless gloves. He is making a gesture with his proper right hand, holding his middle finger down with his thumb and his other fingers out. Tony Tone is on the right wearing a fur coat with darker colored lapels and cuffs over a Fair Isle sweater. He stands with his proper left thumb tucked into his jeans pocket and his head tilted slightly towards JDL. Both men look directly at the camera. They stand in a dark interior room, with strands of small lights strung across the ceiling and walls. In the bottom right corner of the image, a table with an ashtray is visible.
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Catalog reference: 2015.132.42
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