Photographic print from the Broadway production of "for colored girls..."
- Photograph by
- Swope, Martha, American
- Subject of
- Reese, Roxanne
- Hunt, Sharita Mae
- Miller, Jonette O'Kelley, American
- Date
- 1977-1978
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 9 5/16 × 7 9/16 in. (23.7 × 19.2 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
- H x W (mounting paper): 13 5/16 × 10 3/16 in. (33.8 × 25.9 cm)
- Description
- A black and white photograph of Jonette O’Kelley Miller, performing as the Lady in Green. She is standing with her right leg pointing away from her body, her left hand raised by her head and her right hand resting on her chest. The photograph was taking during the Broadway production of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. This photograph is glued to mounting paper; another photograph from the production is on the reverse side.
- Place captured
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- photographs
- portraits
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the collection of Earl S. and Jonette O. Miller
- Object number
- 2015.53.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Photo by Martha Swope/ ©The New York Public Library
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.