Harvard Art Museums > 2019.314.11: Occupying Wall Street, December 17, 2011 Photographs Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Occupying Wall Street, December 17, 2011 (Accra Shepp) , 2019.314.11,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 09, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/365844. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2019.314.11 People Accra Shepp, American (New York, NY born 1962) Title Occupying Wall Street, December 17, 2011 Other Titles Series/Book Title: Occupying Wall Street Classification Photographs Work Type photograph Date 2011 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, New York, New York City Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/365844 Physical Descriptions Medium Gelatin silver print Technique Gelatin silver print Dimensions 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Accra Shepp, created 2011-2012, sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2019. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs Copyright © Accra Shepp Accession Year 2019 Object Number 2019.314.11 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description “Occupying Wall Street, December 17, 2011” Ellen and Bill Schaap and their dog Bambu. Ellen and Bill lived in Greenwich Village. Bill was a lawyer and co-founder of the CovertAction Information Bulletin and director of the Institute for Media Analysis. The seventeenth of each month marked a monthly anniversary of the protest. It was customary to denote the date with the first letter of the month followed by the number seventeen, this day was D17. The protest was in a small triangular island of a park known as Duarte Park close to 6th Avenue and Canal Street. It is owned by the vestry of Trinity Church a member of the Episcopal Church of New York City. The Trinity Church vestry has a real estate portfolio valued in the billions of dollars and a very small church membership. The vestries are run by lay members of the church and in the case of Trinity Church consists solely of wealthy financiers. After the protesters had used the park as a new base for a period of a few weeks the vestry forced them to leave. Related Works 2019.314 Accra Shepp Occupying Wall Street Photographs Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
