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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.119
People
John Simmons, American (Chicago, IL born 1950)
Title
Unite or Perish, Chicago
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1968
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Illinois, Chicago
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361762

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pigment print
Technique
Pigment print
Dimensions
22.9 × 35.6 cm (9 × 14 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in black ink: John Simmons
  • inscription: l.l., in black ink: Chicago 1968

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Simmons, created 1968, sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
Copyright
© John Simmons
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.119
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Colleen Walsh, "Taking it all personally: Carpenter Center show reflects racial disparities that helped fuel James Baldwin's writing", Harvard Gazette (Cambridge, MA, 2018)

Exhibition History

  • Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 09/13/2018 - 12/30/2018

Verification Level

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