Image: Sun Ra (1973 publicity photo - Impulse ABC Dunhill)

Description: American jazz musician Sun Ra in a publicity photo promoting the 1973 reissue of his album The Magic City through Impulse! Records and ABC/Dunhill Records. The keyboard appears to be a Farfisa Professional 222 combo organ. An alternate portrait (in color) from the same photo session appeared in the album artwork for Sun Ra's 1973 album Astro Black (see Discogs, click "More images").
Title: Sun Ra (1973 publicity photo - Impulse ABC Dunhill)
Credit: Originally published as a publicity photo included with the 1973 press kit for The Magic City reissue (see Discogs, click "More images"). In its originally distributed form, the photograph was printed and published without a copyright notice. Photo retouched by uploader based on high-res scans.
Author: Distributed by Impulse! Records and ABC/Dunhill Records. Photographer uncredited on the publicity photo itself; most likely Francis Ing, who is credited for the photography on Astro Black (see Discogs link above).
Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1928 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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