Gilles Peress

On the Loyalist Shankhill Road, Belfast, Ireland
1981

Black and white photograph capturing a street scene with three people and a sign that reads "GET RIGHT WITH GOD." A woman in the foreground looks to the side, another woman stands in the middle ground looking directly at the camera, and a man walks in the background. The setting includes a row of houses, a dilapidated building, and a billboard.

Black and white photograph capturing a street scene with three people and a sign that reads "GET RIGHT WITH GOD." A woman in the foreground looks to the side, another woman stands in the middle ground looking directly at the camera, and a man walks in the background. The setting includes a row of houses, a dilapidated building, and a billboard.

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Date
1981

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm) Image: 12 3/4 × 18 15/16in. (32.4 × 48.1 cm)

Accession number
98.47.6

Series
Northern Ireland Series/ Flashpoints: Selected Images of Gilles Peress Portfolio

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Ronald B. and Susan N. Milch

Rights and reproductions
© Gilles Peress, “Magnum Photos, New York”

API
artworks/11926

Exhibitions

Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75

June 29–Sept 3, 2006

Gilles Peress
13 works in the collection

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