Orphanage Jazz Band, Harlem

Otto Hagel · 1940

Here we have Orphanage Jazz Band, Harlem — a photograph by Otto Hagel, nineteen forty. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray. You can pick out the musical instrument, and the group of people.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 10 5/8 × 13 1/2" (27 × 34.3 cm) · Credit The Family of Man Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 510: Easter Sunday in Harlem, New York

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Proletarian Intellectuals [Else Schuler, Tristan Rémy, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Gerd Arntz], Les musiciens (The Musicians), Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby