Entrance to the City Cafe
Artist
Danny Lyon
(American, born 1942)
Date1964
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 16.3 x 24 cm (6 7/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 20.4 x 25.2 cm (8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
sheet: 20.4 x 25.2 cm (8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineStoddard Acquisition Fund
Object number2011.290
Label TextActivist and photojournalist Danny Lyon was in the midst of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement when he caught this entrance to a café in Jim Crow-era Selma, Alabama. While legal segregation based on race remained strong in the mid-century American South, physical force also controlled the access people of color had to many spaces and services. Andy Warhol’s monochrome screen-print reproduces a press photo revealing how violence and intimidation worked to undermine the status of African Americans in the public sphere.ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MAOn View
Not on view
