Ernest Cole
For Whites Only

For Whites Only

© Courtesy of Magnum Photos on behalf of the Ernest Cole Family Trust

For Whites Only
For Whites Only
ArtistSouth African, 1940–1990
PrinterSouth African, born 1950
CultureSouth African
Titles
  • For Whites Only
  • from the series House of Bondage
Date1960–1966, printed 2020
Place depictedSouth Africa
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 18 × 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm)
 Sheet: 19 13/16 × 15 7/8 in. (50.3 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2020.396.37
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ProvenanceMagnum Photos, London; purchased by MFAH, 2020.

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1960, printed 1994
Gelatin silver print
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Gelatin silver print
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Gelatin silver print
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1899
Gelatin silver print
2023.246
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Ernest C. Withers
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1960, printed later
Gelatin silver print
2008.641
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Ernest C. Withers
Dr. Martin Luther King is Confronted. Dr. King is stopped by police at Medgar Ever's Funeral. Jackson, Mississippi.
June 1963, printed 1994
Gelatin silver print
98.225.6
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Little Rock Nine. The "Little Rock Nine's" first day of school. Little Rock, Arkansas.
1957, printed 1994
Gelatin silver print
98.225.5
Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too. William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main St., Memphis, Tennessee.
Ernest C. Withers
Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too. William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main St., Memphis, Tennessee.
August 1961, printed 1994
Gelatin silver print
98.225.3
First Desegregated Bus Ride. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy on first desegrated bus. Montgomery, Alabama.
Ernest C. Withers
First Desegregated Bus Ride. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy on first desegrated bus. Montgomery, Alabama.
December 1956, printed 1994
Gelatin silver print
98.225.2