Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi

July 1971

Louis Draper

Associated Names
Louis Draper

Artist, American, 1935 - 2002

The image shows a woman outdoors, captured from the waist up. She faces slightly to the side, with her eyes looking to the left. She has a softly illuminated face, full cheeks, and a gentle expression. Her dark, shoulder-length hair is lightly tousled and frames her face naturally. She wears a patterned blouse with large floral designs in monochrome shades. There are no visible pieces of jewelry or objects in her hands. The background features an open, unpaved dirt road stretching into the distance, flanked by fields with indistinct vegetation and a blurred treeline further away. The photograph is in black and white.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.5 × 29.2 cm (8 7/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 27.94 × 35.56 cm (11 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2020.71.1

  • Copyright

    © Draper Preservation Trust, Nell D. Winston, Trustee

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Louis Draper, New York; The Louis H. Draper Preservation Trust, New York; NGA purchase (through Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York), 2020.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: LDR-00027-SP LD118

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