Demonstrators Try to Enter an "All-White" Swimming Pool, Cairo, IL

Photography and Media

1962/64

Danny Lyon
American, born 1942

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Danny Lyon
Title: Demonstrators Try to Enter an "All-White" Swimming Pool, Cairo, IL
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1962–1964
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Image/paper: 21.9 × 32.1 cm (8 5/8 × 12 11/16 in.); Mount: 28.2 × 38.2 cm (11 1/8 × 15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Samuel W. Sax
Reference Number: 1983.317

Art Institute of Chicago, “The Concerned Photographer,” March 18–June 11, 2006. (Katherine Bussard, Newell G. Smith, Gregory Harris)

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