Three Shades of Love

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.

This is a color archival pigment print from a digital file. The photograph depicts a full-length image of three women in carnival-like outfits posed with their arms around one another during the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, New York. From left to right, their outfits are a solid red, white, and blue color. Each woman is wearing a large, carnival crown with a matching bra top, belt, and black bottoms with large earrings. The top and bottoms have metal beads drooping across. The background is a metal background, presumably a roll-up store front door. There is a graffiti tag to the middle right in black sharpie [TAZ]. There are no inscriptions on the print, front or back.

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