Martin Luther King, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia
February 1968
Artist, American, 1936 - 2021
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 31.5 × 20.5 cm (12 3/8 × 8 1/16 in.)
sheet: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.) -
Accession
2016.22.111
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Benedict J. Fernandez, North Bergen, NJ; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1995; acquired by NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Countdown to Eternity, Photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s by Ben Fernandez, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January 14–February 20, 1995
Inscriptions
on verso, stamped vertical along top right edge in black ink: NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH / DEPARTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY / BENEDICT J. FERNANDEZ, Chairman / 66 WEST 12th STREET / NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10011; center stamped perpendicular in black ink: © BENEDICT J. FERNANDEZ / BENEDICT J. FERNANDEZ / PHOTOGRAPHER / 1432 37TH STREET / NORTH BERGEN, N. J. / 201 - 865-6997; by unknown hand, vertical along lower right edge, in graphite: MLK / SCLC Headquarters / Atlanta Feb 68
Wikidata ID
Q64145108