Bruce Davidson

Untitled (Khrushchev can eat here, Why Can't We), Birmingham, Alabama
1963

Black and white photograph depicting a historical scene where a police officer, wearing a helmet and sunglasses, escorts a person holding a protest sign out of a vehicle. Another individual is seated inside the vehicle, looking directly at the camera. The scene suggests a moment of civil unrest or protest. There is a partial view of a bystander and buildings in the background.

Black and white photograph depicting a historical scene where a police officer, wearing a helmet and sunglasses, escorts a person holding a protest sign out of a vehicle. Another individual is seated inside the vehicle, looking directly at the camera. The scene suggests a moment of civil unrest or protest. There is a partial view of a bystander and buildings in the background.

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Date
1963

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm) Image: 8 × 12in. (20.3 × 30.5 cm)

Accession number
2004.34

Series
Time of Change, (1961-65)

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Ronald L. Bailey

Rights and reproductions
© Bruce Davidson, “Magnum Photos, New York”

API
artworks/21969

Exhibitions

An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017

Aug 18, 2017–Aug 27, 2018

Bruce Davidson
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