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Baaba Maal

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Baaba Maal, a Senegalese singer, guitar player, and percussionist, who sings mostly in the language of Pulaar, looks to his left and holds eyeglasses...

Date Published
2000
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Baaba Maal

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Baaba Maal, a Senegalese singer, guitar player, and percussionist, who sings mostly in the language of Pulaar, bends over looking down while playing a...

Date Published
2000
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Baaba Maal

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Senegalese singer, guitarist, and percussionist Baaba Maal looks forward at the camera in a close-up portrait photograph. Printed in the margin below...

Date Published
1998
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bruce Brothers Band

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The Bruce Brothers Band, an Australian blues band comprised of seven white men and one Black man, stand on a hillside holding their instruments...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Cannon Lion of Judah

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Cannon & Lion of Judah, a reggae band from St. Thomas, St. Croix, and Seattle, Washington, made up of islander Black men, and two white women...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Coco Tea

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Coco Tea, a Jamaican reggae singer, smiles at the camera in a close-up photograph. He wears a leather hat with a woven brim and a leather jacket with...

Date Published
1998
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Edi Kriz Okri (King of African Pop)

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Edi Kriz Okri (King of African Pop) sits with his elbows resting his thighs and brings his hands to his chin to make fists except for his index...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jonathan Butler

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South African guitarist and vocalist Jonathan Butler folds his hands under his chin and looks directly at the photographer in a head-shot photograph...

Date Published
2001
2005
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Lágbájá

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Yoruban percussionist and saxophonist Lágbájá plays Afrobeat, jazz, funk and soul music. He looks directly at the camera through a hooded and masked...

Date Published
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Mamadou Diabate

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Percussionist Mamadou Diabate from Burkina Faso, West African, wearing traditional clothing while holding a guitar as he sits behind different sizes...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Maraca

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Afro-Cuban jazz flute player Maraca leans against a vintage car wearing a light-colored, double-breasted suit, and playing a flute as he looks up at...

Date Published
1998
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Michael Rose

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Michael Rose, a Jamaican reggae singer, looks seriously to the left at the camera as he lays his hands palm-to-palm in front of him. His hair is...

Date Published
1995
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Michael Rose

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Michael Rose, a Jamaican reggae singer, looks seriously to the left at the camera as he lays his hands palm-to-palm in front of him. His hair is...

Date Published
1995
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Q Shan Dia

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Reggae vocalist Q Shan Dia, from Union Island in St. Vincents and the Grenadines, stands on a beach holding an elaborate walking stick. Printed in the...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Root One

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Root 1 is a reggae band comprised of guitarist Jerry Stevens, drummer Michael Wong, from Trinidad, and bassist and vocalist Ivan "Bassie" Libard, from...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Shayar & Krooshal Force

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Shayar & Krooshal Force, a reggae band comprised of one white man and three Jamaican men sitting on a log with woods behind them. Printed across the...

Date Published
1999
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Soukous Stars

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Soukous Stars, a soukous band of five men, stand each with one foot on a white foot stool and their other hand in a pocket of their mostly leather...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Tarika

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Tarika, a band from Madagascar, stand together holding their instruments and smiling at the camera. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Date Published
2001
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Unidentified group

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An unidentified group of six black men in traditional clothing gather together for a photograph. Four stand arm-in-arm grinning at the camera. One man...

Date Published
1985
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Unidentified group

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An unidentified group of four black men sit together and smile at the camera. The man farthest to the left wears a ball cap over a hooded jacket.

Date Published
1985
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Unidentified male guitarist performing (top); Unidentified female singer performing (bottom)

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An unidentified black male guitarist closes his eyes and tilts his head back as he is performing in a close-up photograph (top). An unidentified black...

Date Published
1985
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Unidentified man

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An unidentified black man stands among leaves of a tree that spill shadows of the leaves on his face and arms in a close-up photograph. He wears a...

Date Published
1985
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Unidentified man

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An unidentified black man, wearing a Hawaiian print shirt and wooden bead necklaces, smiles up at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph.

Date Published
1985
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Unidentified woman

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An unidentified black woman sits sideways on a chair in a corner of a room, rests her arm over the back rest of the chair and her hand on her shoulder...

Date Published
1985
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
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  • Black people
  • 2001-2010

Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (24)

Types

  • photographs (24)

Genres

  • Publicity photographs (21)
  • Black & white photographs (18)
  • Gelatin silver prints (17)
  • Portrait photographs (15)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Color photographs (6)
  • Photocopies (2)
  • Slides (2)
  • Snapshots (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (14)
  • 1981-1990 (6)
  • (-) 2001-2010 (24)

Subjects

  • Men (22)
  • Singers (10)
  • Bands (Music) (7)
  • Musicians (7)
  • Reggae musicians (7)
  • Guitarists (6)
  • Jamaicans (4)
  • Men, White (3)
  • Music--African influences (3)
  • Percussionists (3)
  • Women (3)
  • Africans (2)
  • Ethnic costume (2)
  • Jazz musicians (2)
  • Tukulor (African people) (2)
  • Australians (1)
  • Balo (1)
  • Blues musicians (1)
  • Cubans (1)
  • Flute players (1)
  • Funk musicians (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Nigerians (1)
  • Percussionist (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Sembla (African people) (1)
  • Senegalese (1)
  • Soukous (Music) (1)
  • South Africans (1)
  • Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) (1)
  • Trinidadians (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • Yoruba (African people) (1)
  • (-) Black people (24)

Subjects, People

  • Maal, Baaba (3)
  • Rose, Michael, 1957- (2)
  • Butler, Jonathan (1)
  • Cannon (Musician) (1)
  • Cocoa Tea (Musician) (1)
  • Diabaté, Mamadou (Percussionist) (1)
  • Lagbaja (1)
  • Okri, Edi Kriz (1)
  • Q Shan Dia (1)
  • Shayar (1)
  • Valle, Orlando, 1966- (1)

Date Published

  • 2004 (17)
  • 2001 (12)
  • 1985 (6)
  • 1998 (3)
  • 1995 (2)
  • 2000 (2)
  • 2002 (2)
  • 1999 (1)
  • 2005 (1)

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