Photographic print of Tenor Saw

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Two prints (.1 and .2) of a black and white vertical diptych photograph featuring Jamaican dancehall artist Tenor Saw. Both images depict Tenor Saw standing next to a turntable and singing into a microphone. The turntable appears in the foreground, with Tenor Saw behind it, wearing a light-colored check shirt and a flat top cap. In the top image, he looks straight at the camera, holding a microphone in his proper right hand. In the bottom image, his face is turned in profile to the camera, and the microphone is held in his proper left hand. In both images, studio engineer and mixer Tulluice stands to Tenor Saw's left, wearing a Kangol hat. Behind them is a crowd of people. In the background is a building facade with a doorway at center and a window on either side. The images have a thin black border around them. The back of 2015.132.420.

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