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Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer is arrested
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer is arrested

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
Date1964
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)
Overall, Paper: 10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (27.6 × 35.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 20 1/16 in. (40.6 × 51 cm)
ClassificationsCivil Rights Movement
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2000.14.27
Terms
  • History
  • Civil Rights
  • Police department
  • Violence
  • African-American Theme
  • Black
  • White
  • Documentary
  • Cambridge, Maryland
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Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. The focus is an African American man wearing white pants in the center of two groups of people, who are pulling him in a similar way one would be drawn and quartered. On one side, men armed with guns, helmuts, and gas masks pull on an African American man's left leg, left arm and shirt. In the foreground, a group of African Americans hold his right ankle. On the left, a man in a short sleeve khaki uniform walks away from the scene.

Label TextDanny Lyon American (b. 1942) Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC Photographer is Arrested, Cambridge, Maryland, 1964 Gelatin-silver print Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 2000.14.27 Danny Lyon grew up in a middle-class section of New York City and began to make photographs at the age of 17. He studied history at the University of Chicago and in 1962 joined the Civil Rights Movement, becoming staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Edited By: DS Edited Date: 2006 Approved By: DS Approval Date: 01/31/2007
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