Untitled (Birmingham, Alabama), from the portfolio Ten Works x Ten Painters
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@ Smithsonian American Art Museum
Wadsworth Atheneum Ives-Sillman
Description
In May 1963, photographers swarmed to catch a glimpse of civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama. Their cameras documented harrowing scenes such as this one, in which a man is trapped between police dogs attacking him from two directions. Andy Warhol used a photograph from Time magazine as the source of Untitled (Birmingham, Alabama). He increased the contrast of light and dark to eliminate details and emphasize the moment's tension. The resulting print casts a light on the gulf between nonviolent protestors and local authorities at the time.Pop Art Prints, 2014
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
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- African American
- African Americans
- Alabama
- Animal
- Animals
- Birmingham
- Black History
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movement
- Cvil Rights
- Danger
- Dog
- Dogs
- Ethnic
- Ethnicity
- Evil
- Figure Group
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- Ives Sillman
- Landscape
- Landscapes
- Occupation
- Occupations
- Policeman
- Service
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- United States
- Wadsworth Atheneum
- Warhol, Andy