Bob Moses at a memorial service for James Earl Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman in the ruins of the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, Neshoba County, Mississippi

August 1964

Tamio Wakayama

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Tamio Wakayama

Artist, Canadian, 1941 - 2018

The image shows a man standing in the center foreground. He is amidst a rubble-strewn area, wearing a light-colored shirt and light trousers. He has short, neatly styled hair, and is wearing glasses. To the right, there are seated individuals showing mainly their upper bodies. Some of them are dressed formally, with at least one woman visible. A man in suspenders stands further back on the left side of the image, near a tarp-covered pile. The background consists of leafing trees under a cloudy sky, suggesting an outdoor setting.
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Provenance

Tamio Wakayama; (Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2023.

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Inscriptions

on verso, artist studio stamp, center in black ink: COPYRIGHT & CREDIT / TAMIO WAKAYAMA / F UNION ST. / VANCOUVER, B.C. V6A 2C2 / TEL: (604) 254-3488; by unknown hand, center in graphite: Mississippi / Civil Rights


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