Object Details
- Creator
- Cummings, Steven M., 1965
- Collection Creator
- Cummings, Steven M.
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Topic
- Hats
- African Americans -- Religious life
- African Americans
- Creator
- Cummings, Steven M., 1965
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- Steven M. Cummings Photograph collection
- Biographical/Historical note
- Steven M. Cummings is a photographer and documentarian who has a studio in Northeast, Washington, DC. He was born in Okinawa, Japan in 1965 and traveled through Europe with his military family as a child. Cummings depicts black life in Washington, DC and shoots almost exclusively in black and white. He captures people as they are, outside the studio, in natural light, and going about the business of living. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010 with an M.F.A. in Photographic and Electronic Media. Cummings selected exhibitions include D.C. Undercover: Photographs by Steven M. Cummings, Artuare, and Chocolate City Rest in Peace.
- Extent
- 1 Photographic print (oversize folder, Gelatin silver, 16 x 16 inches)
- Date
- 2002
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographic prints
- Citation
- Steven M. Cummings Photograph collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Steven M. Cummings.
- Collection Rights
- The Steven M. Cummings photographs are the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.
- Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1512603617268-1512603617276-1
