Image

RISDM 2017-14.tif

Bruce Davidson

Martin Luther King Jr. at a Press Conference, Birmingham, Alabama

Description

Maker

Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933)

Title

Martin Luther King Jr. at a Press Conference, Birmingham, Alabama
from the series Time of Change
USA. Alabama. Birmingham. 1962. Reverend Martin Luther King at a Press Conference

Year

1962 (printed later)

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 22.2 x 33 cm (8 3/4 x 13 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso at center in graphite: Bruce Davidson.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

The Jerome Corwin and Phyllis Littman Corwin Fund

Object Number

2017.14

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Collective Recollection
Jul 27, 2018 – Jan 20, 2019

Label copy

In this portrait, Martin Luther King Jr. focuses intensely on his notes as a press conference swirls around him. Bruce Davidson engaged issues of racial equality throughout much of his career, conscious of his position as a white photographer. An African American woman watching Davidson photograph her Harlem street block once admonished, “What you call a ghetto, I call my home”-something he did not forget.

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Tombstone

Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933)
Martin Luther King Jr. at a Press Conference, Birmingham, Alabama; from the series Time of Change; USA. Alabama. Birmingham. 1962. Reverend Martin Luther King at a Press Conference, 1962 (printed later)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 22.2 x 33 cm (8 3/4 x 13 inches)
The Jerome Corwin and Phyllis Littman Corwin Fund 2017.14

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