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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.314.11
People
Accra Shepp, American (New York, NY born 1962)
Title
Occupying Wall Street, December 17, 2011
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Occupying Wall Street
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
2011
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York, New York City
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/365844

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Accra Shepp, created 2011-2012, sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2019.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
Copyright
© Accra Shepp
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.314.11
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
“Occupying Wall Street, December 17, 2011”
Ellen and Bill Schaap and their dog Bambu. Ellen and Bill lived in Greenwich Village. Bill was a lawyer and co-founder of the CovertAction Information Bulletin and director of the Institute for Media Analysis.

The seventeenth of each month marked a monthly anniversary of the protest. It was customary to denote the date with the first letter of the month followed by the number seventeen, this day was D17. The protest was in a small triangular island of a park known as Duarte Park close to 6th Avenue and Canal Street. It is owned by the vestry of Trinity Church a member of the Episcopal Church of New York City. The Trinity Church vestry has a real estate portfolio valued in the billions of dollars and a very small church membership. The vestries are run by lay members of the church and in the case of Trinity Church consists solely of wealthy financiers. After the protesters had used the park as a new base for a period of a few weeks the vestry forced them to leave.

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