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[Sam Cooke, singer, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, singing into microphone] – Vintage Wall Art

[Sam Cooke, singer, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, singing into microphone], 1964 — historic photograph
[Sam Cooke, singer, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, singing into microphone], 1964. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Sam Cooke appears here in a half-length view, standing and turned to the right as he sings into a microphone, a pose that captures the warmth and ease that made him one of the most celebrated voices of the early 1960s. The picture comes from the New York World-Telegram & Sun collection, a large body of newspaper photographs that the paper's staff shot for news and feature use, and this one dates to 1964. That year Cooke was at the height of his recording and performing career, with songs that bridged gospel, soul and pop, so the image is a useful record of how publicity photography presented a performer during that peak period.

Created / published1964
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePublicity photographs 1960-1970.Photographic prints 1960-1970.
NotesNew York World-Telegram & Sun Collection.
SubjectsCooke, Sam. Sound recording--1960-1970.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,287 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184643

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