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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Women Wait to Plant a Field Above Jacmel
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2011.

Women Wait to Plant a Field Above Jacmel

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1983-1986, printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 10 1/16 × 10 in. (25.6 × 25.4 cm)
Overall, Paper: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm)
SignedPrinter's stamp, with negative and print date and signature in graphite on verso
Credit LineGift of George Stephanopoulos
Object number2010.10.20
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a black and white photograph of a group of people standing in a field, waiting to plant a crop. The group consists of mainly women in white dresses and headscarves.
Exhibition History"Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2020 - January 3, 2021.Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Merci Gonaives_, (Clintondale, New York: Bleak Beauty Books, 1988), 60.