- Photograph by
- Higgins, Chester, American, born 1946
- Subject of
- Emperor Selassie, Haile, Ethiopian, 1892 - 1975
- The Church Selassie, Haile I, Jamaican American, founded 1987
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Date
- 2007; printed 2021
- Medium
- pigment on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 6 × 9 in. (15.3 × 22.9 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 6 15/16 × 10 in. (17.7 × 25.4 cm)
- Description
- A pigment print photograph depicting the Rastafarian community at the Brooklyn site of The Church Haile Selassie I, in the middle of a service. Captured within in the wooden pews on the side of church where the women sit, the priest presents an open book to a woman dressed in a white dress and headscarf, who bows to it. The priest wears a long gold robe with stripes of red and green on its sleeves, and a white long sleeve shirt beneath the robe. A woman wearing a white dress and pink headscarf holds a small child in her arms and stands in the aisle behind the priest and bowing woman. Two young girls, also dressed in white, the smallest one wearing an ornate red, gold and green headscarf – the other in a long white headscarf, stand in the same aisle as the priest, and face forward. A white and red “EXIT” sign, black-and-white clock, and variously sized frame art, adorn the two walls visible in the photograph. The photograph is set in matte white backing and on the reverse is Chester Higgins’s Eye of Horus trademark stamp and signature.
- Place captured
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Religious and Sacred Objects
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- pigment prints
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2022.18.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Chester Higgins, All Rights Reserved
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.