Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of Ed Lover and Will Smith
ca.1995
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 photograph of Ed Lover and Will Smith. Lover is seated on the left of the photo. He is wearing a black baseball cap with a black, white, and red collared shirt. Smith is seated on the right of the photo and is wearing a white and black long sleeve shirt. The letters [RL] are on the top of the shirt below the neckline. The two are in a recording studio; part of a mic stand is visible on the bottom left of the photo. Doctor Dré is partially visible on the bottom right corner of the photo. The back of the photograph is printed with the text [FUJICOLOR / paper] and Japanese characters in diagonal lines.
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Catalog reference: 2020.30.3.11
