Self Portrait, New York City

Eslanda Goode Robeson · 1938

Here we have Self Portrait, New York City — a photograph by Eslanda Goode Robeson, nineteen thirty-eight. The piece is gelatin silver print, about 20 by 25 centimeters. In the picture, look for the portrait of a person.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 8 × 10" (20.3 × 25.4 cm) · Credit The Photography Council Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 510: Apollo Theatre, Mahalia Jackson, Singing

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Self-Portrait I, New York, Self-Portrait with Palette, Portrait of Maria Lani, Handsplay, Paris, Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand