- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Furious Flower Poetry Center, American, founded 1999
- Subject of
- Giovanni, Nikki, American, 1943 - 2024
- Date
- 1950-2014
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in. (25 × 20 cm)
- Description
- This black and white photograph depicts Nikki Giovanni. Shown from the waist up, she is seated and leans sideways on her right elbow. She holds a stack of her volumes of poetry in her right hand and leans her right cheek on the volumes. Wearing a dark sweater over a collared shirt, she gazes directly at the viewer.
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Movement
- BAM (Black Arts Movement 1965-1976)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Topic
- Feminism
- Literature
- Poetry
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Furious Flower Poetry Center, JMU
- Object number
- 2014.254.6
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




