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

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

1962/64

Artist:

Danny Lyon
American, born 1942

About this artwork

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

Extended information about this artwork

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