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Bruce Davidson

Martin Luther King Jr. at a Press Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, 1962 (printed later)

Description

Maker

  • Bruce Davidson, American

Title

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

Year

1962 (printed later)

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso at center in graphite: Bruce Davidson.

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

The Jerome Corwin and Phyllis Littman Corwin Fund

Object Number

2017.14

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Collective Recollection

July 27, 2018 - January 20, 2019

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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