SNCC field secretary, later SNCC chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration
Artist
Danny Lyon
(American, b. 1942)
Artist/Vendor
Danny Lyon
(American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1962
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Overall, Image: 9 × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)
Overall, Image: 9 × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)
InscribedDate, print number, and a credit to Chuck Kelton (who made the print) appears on the verso of the print.
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2000.14.3
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. This focuses on three African Americans, each on one knee with their heads down, praying on a sidewalk.ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Exhibition History"Civil Rights Photography," Newseum, Arlington, Virginia, January 8 - April 30, 2001. "Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2020 - January 3, 2021. Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 25.
Danny Lyon
1963-1964, printed 1999
Danny Lyon
1962, printed 1999
