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Quincy Jones

1998; printed 2019

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

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

A black-and-white photograph of Quincy Jones, by Platon. The close-up of Jones depicts him from the shoulders up. He is looking directly at the viewer with a serious expression on his face and a furrowed brow. He is wearing oval shaped glasses with a tortoiseshell upper rim, a light tone dress shirt unbuttoned at the collar, and a dark tone, felted sweater. He also has a small hoop earring in his proper left earlobe. The background of the photograph is bright white. The photograph has a thick white border. The edition number, [5/12], is printed in the bottom left corner. The photographer’s signature and date, [Platon 19], is handwritten in the bottom right corner. Inside the border, at the bottom center, is the photographer’s embossed mark: [PLATON ? / EDITIONED ? / PRINT ?[encircled between two bands of embossed dots]]. The back of the photograph is plain and white.

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Catalog reference: 2021.33.52

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