Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in black and gray paint; crop marks bottom left and bottom right in black ink; by unknown hand, bottom center in black ink: 4 col x 5 1/2" DAILY 12:00; bottom right in graphite crossed out in black ink: 77.5 78; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in blue ink: LA / Riot; upper left stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: AUG 17 1965; upper right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / AUG 18 1965; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: [reproduction of image] / --Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photo by Bud Gray / The glaring Negro on the Watts street had just thrown a rock through the press car's window, cutting / and bruising a reporter and photographer. The photographer fired back instinctively, his camera tilted, / to get this picture of their fleeing assailant.; by unknown hand, center in red pencil on applied newspaper perpendicular: crime/riot / L.A.; center in graphite: [obscured] / DAILY / 12:00