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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.116
People
Steve Schapiro, American (New York, NY 1934 - 2022 Chicago, Illinois)
Title
James Baldwin, Colored Entrance Only, New Orleans
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Freedom Now, Civil Rights
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1963
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361742

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
  • inscription: on verso, in graphite: 5/25 / Steve Shapirio / James Baldwin / Colored Entrance / Durham, North Carolina 1963
  • 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
5/25

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
2018.116
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

  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/2022 - 04/10/2023
  • Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 09/13/2018 - 12/30/2018

Verification Level

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