Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of Grandmaster Flash, NYC, late eighties
late 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 color photograph of Grandmaster Flash. He is wearing a white t-shirt with a drawing of a face on it. It has text on it which reads [You got a problem?]. He is also wearing a white cap, a necklace, and has a mustache. His arms are behind his back and he is standing in front of a white wall. There is a white border around the image. It is thinner on the two sides and thicker on the top and bottom. The back of the photograph has light grey text repeated upside down in diagonal lines. There is a tear on the left side from where tape used to be, and there are two pieces of tape at the top. There is also a yellow post-it note on the right side near the top. There is an inscription by Bill Adler on the bottom, handwritten in blue ink.
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Catalog reference: 2015.132.88
