Object number:
2010.54.6033
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
The Head (Susan Taylor, As Model)
Maker:
Ken Ramsay
Date made:
circa 1970
Material/Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 31.5 in, W: 21.375 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Black and white poster shows a reproduction of a photographic portrait of Susan L. Taylor photographed from the back. Taylor turns her head to the right so that her face is in profile. She has a shaved head and is wearing large hoop earrings. [Jamaican-born Ken Ramsay was a freelance photo-journalist. Susan L. Taylor was an editor of the seminal popular black magazine Essence and was an icon of African-American fashion and beauty, -LMC]
Concepts:
portrait; woman; earring
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