Kwame Brathwaite
Untitled (Cannonball Adderley, Great Northern Hotel. Listening to playback), early 60s c., printed 2018
Archival pigment print, mounted and framed
Adderly_Cannonball_Loc_1A_001
Adderly_Cannonball_Loc_1A_001
30 x 30 inches
76.2 x 76.2 cm
76.2 x 76.2 cm
#2/5 (Ed. of 5 + 2AP)
Cannonball Adderley listening to playback, Harlem, ca. 1962 Kwame Brathwaite’s earliest photographs are those he took in jazz clubs in New York City the he and his friends and family...
Cannonball Adderley listening to playback, Harlem, ca. 1962
Kwame Brathwaite’s earliest photographs are those he took in jazz clubs in New York City the he and his friends and family founded and frequented. Here Brathwaite depicts the great jazz alto saxophonist Julian Edward “Cannonball” Adderley (1928-1975) contemplating a recent performance in an extraordinarily intimate instance of a great artist experiencing their own art.
Kwame Brathwaite’s earliest photographs are those he took in jazz clubs in New York City the he and his friends and family founded and frequented. Here Brathwaite depicts the great jazz alto saxophonist Julian Edward “Cannonball” Adderley (1928-1975) contemplating a recent performance in an extraordinarily intimate instance of a great artist experiencing their own art.
Exhibitions
"Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite," at Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, April 11 - September 1, 2019"Facing Forward: Photographic Portraits from the Collection," at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, August 15 - December 5, 2021