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Miles Davis portrait collection

Title: Miles Davis portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1948?-1982?>

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Davis, Miles	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<7> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
<5> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis ranging from the beginning of his career to the 1980s. Collection consists of a studio portrait of Davis (ca. 1950s) and views of Davis during a recording session (ca. late 1950s), which were all probably used for publicity purposes; views of Davis in concert at various locations (ca. late 1940s to 1982); and a view of Davis, roughed up and handcuffed, after being beaten by police outside the Birdland jazz club in New York (1959). Also included is a publicity portrait of former wife Betty, and a view of Davis with an unidentified woman. Full, half and quarter-length portraits are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Group portraits – 1940-1989.
Portrait photographs – 1940-1989.
Publicity photographs – 1950-1989.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1989.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographs have captions; some photographs have written descriptive information; one photograph is cropped; some are damaged.
Photographers include Sulaiman Ellison, Raymond Ross, United Press International and others.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Davis, Miles

OCLC

NYPG085000647-F

Title

Miles Davis portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1948?-1982?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Ellison, Sulaiman, 1951- Photographer

Ross, Raymond. Photographer

Costello, B. Photographer

Columbia Records, Inc.

United Press International.

Shaw Artists Corporation.

Island Records.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Davis, Miles

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