Man in Fedora
Untrimmed black and white print (dating 1975, printed in New York by Jerry L. Thompson) along with its original film negative.
The subject is a male figure who stands frontally with his hands at his side. He wears a pair of loose white trousers with a black blazer over top. His fedora sits askew on his head and he breaks with formal conventions of portraiture to smile at the camera. The backdrop is a textile without any pattern, which lets us see parts of the wall behind it. On the lower right hand corner of the negative, a reversed date stamp reveals when it was developed.
The subject is a male figure who stands frontally with his hands at his side. He wears a pair of loose white trousers with a black blazer over top. His fedora sits askew on his head and he breaks with formal conventions of portraiture to smile at the camera. The backdrop is a textile without any pattern, which lets us see parts of the wall behind it. On the lower right hand corner of the negative, a reversed date stamp reveals when it was developed.
Artwork Details
- Title: Man in Fedora
- Artist: Seydou Keïta (Malian, Bamako ca. 1921–2001 Paris)
- Date: 1975
- Geography: Mali, Bamako
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: H. 7 1/2 × W. 5 1/8 in. (19 × 13 cm)
- Classification: Paper-Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Susan Mullin Vogel, 2015
- Object Number: 2015.499.3.2
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
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