2018.115: Stop Police Killings, Selma

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2018.115

People

Steve Schapiro, American (New York, NY 1934 - 2022 Chicago, Illinois)

Title

Stop Police Killings, Selma

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Freedom Now, Civil Rights

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1965

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Alabama

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/361741

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in.)
image: 48.3 × 32.4 cm (19 × 12 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: On verso, in graphite: Steve Shapiro
• inscription: on verso, in graphite: 12/25 / Steve Shapiro / Stop Police Killings / Selma, Alabama 1965 / CSS-1195
• stamp: on verso: (c) Steve Shapiro

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA], sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition

12/25

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs

Copyright

© Steve Schapiro

Accession Year

2018

Object Number

2018.115

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Colleen Walsh, "Taking it all personally: Carpenter Center show reflects racial disparities that helped fuel James Baldwin's writing", Harvard Gazette (Cambridge, MA, 2018)

Exhibition History

• Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 09/13/2018 - 12/30/2018

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