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Roy DeCarava

Five Men, 1964, 1964

Description

Maker

Title

Five Men, 1964

Year

1964

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

26.7 x 33.3 cm (10 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed on photo in black felt pen LL:DECARAVA and copyrighted in pencil below image LR

Type

Credit

Jesse H. Metcalf Fund

Object Number

84.222.1

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Roy DeCarava

January 11 - March 31, 2002

"The motivation at that moment was my political understanding of the treatment of black people and their response to injustice. This moment occurred during a memorial service for the children killed in a church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1964. The photograph shows men coming out of the service at a church in Harlem. I was aware of all this, and I wanted to make a picture, to commemorate that day. I wasn't there at the bombing, I wasn't in the church, but I knew what it was and I wanted to make a picture that dealt with it. The [five] men were coming out of the church with faces so serious and so intense, and the image was made." (Roy DeCarava, 1990)

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