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Print
Birmingham Race Riot
Andy Warhol, 1928 - 1987
Warhol, Andy
United States
1928 - 1987
Male
19 15/16 x 24 in. (50.7 x 61 cm)
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sheet/image
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1964
1964
1964
1900-2000, 20th century, Charles Rand Penney Collection, politics in art, serigraphs, violence
Print
Andy Warhol frequently appropriated images by other artists for his work. In this case, the image was originally a photograph by Charles Moore in "Life" magazine, May 17, 1963.
[Gallery label text 2013]
This image first appeared in Andy Warhol’s Disasters series, in which the artist selected, cropped, altered, and reproduced mass-circulated news photographs. The series commented upon America’s social ills with photos of suicides, car crashes and nuclear explosions. Birmingham Race Riot captures the racial tensions that gripped the country during the Civil Rights Movement.
Warhol was an eager consumer of newspapers and magazines; he likely saw this photo of the Birmingham riot when it was published in LIFE magazine on May 17, 1963, only five days after the event it immortalized. The original photograph was taken by Charles Moore.
lower right, in the image
1975.335.10
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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8x10
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4x5
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75.335.10DI1
digital image
12/5/2001
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75.335.10DI#2
digital image
2/13/2015
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