Object Details
Creator
Cummings, Steven M., 1965
Collection Creator
Cummings, Steven M.
Citation
Steven M. Cummings Photograph collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Steven M. Cummings.
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Place
Washington (D.C.)
Topic
African American artists
African American men
Sculpture
Creator
Cummings, Steven M., 1965
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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
2003
Archival Repository
Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Type
Archival materials
Photographic prints
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.
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Record ID
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