Joy Reagon and Jessie Harris, Peggy Dammond and Sam Block, Dorie Ladner

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Joy Reagon and Jessie Harris, Peggy Dammond and Sam Block, Dorie Ladner
Joy Reagon and Jessie Harris, Peggy Dammond and Sam Block, Dorie Ladner
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1962; printed 2015
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 2 15/16 × 12 7/8 in. (7.5 × 32.7 cm) Sheet: 11 1/16 × 13 15/16 in. (28.1 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2018.12.77
Not on view
DescriptionThree seperate images on sheet
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Provenance 2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings Verso (stamp, black ink with pencil): "Printer U [in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / Picture Date 1962 [in pencil]/ Print Date 2015 [in pencil]"
Published References Illustrated in Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 51.
Signature Verso, lower center: "Danny Lyon"
Inscribed Verso, lower left (pencil): "DLC-12A"
Photograph by John Bentham.
Outside, Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal wait to get in [a Nashville Tic Toc restaurant]
Danny Lyon
Date: 1962, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.36
Photograph by John Bentham.
After giving a concert in a cotton field in Greenwood, Bob Dylan plays behind the SNCC office. Bernice Reagon, one of the original Freedom Singers and today leader of Sweet Honey in the Rock, listens. Mendy Sampstein sits behind Dylan and talks to Willie Blue
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.30
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
A Reade Street entrance to 187 West Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.49
Photo by Dave Revette.
Entering prison, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.22
Main corridor, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Main corridor, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.23
Photo by Dave Revette.
Man with large tattoo of woman, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.27
Photograph by John Bentham.
Ella Baker, who called the 1960 meeting of student activists in Raleigh, North Carolina, that created SNCC
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.33
Photograph by John Bentham.
Entrance to the City Cafe
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.34
Photograph by John Bentham.
James Forman, like many of the SNCC field staff, was a powerful stump speaker. Here he works the crowd at the Danville mass meeting. An hour later he will be searched by police holding shotguns and automatic weapons
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.35
Photograph by John Bentham.
The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.37
Photograph by John Bentham.
Danny Lyon at Movement headquarters, Albany, Georgia
Danny Lyon
Date: 1962, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.31
Photograph by John Bentham.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph Abernathy are escorted back to jail in Albany
Danny Lyon
Date: 1962
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.32