Ernest C. Withers
I Am A Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee

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Artist Ernest C. Withers American, 1922–2007

CultureAmerican

Titles

I Am A Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee
from the portfolio I Am A Man, Photographs by Ernest C. Withers, Panoptican Press, 1994

DateMarch 28, 1968, printed 1994

Place depictedMemphis, Tennessee, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 7/8 × 18 13/16 in. (27.7 × 47.8 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 3/4 in. (40.3 × 50.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the African American Art Advisory Association

Object number98.225.1

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by African American Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Panopticon Gallery, Rockland, Massachusetts]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Exhibition History"A Love Affair with Pictures: 25 Years of Collecting Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 14–December 30, 2001.

"African-American Advisory Association (Five-A)," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 2 –April 7, 2003.

"African-American Art in the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 22–May 9, 2004.

"The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 2, 2006–January 16, 2007.

"Houston Collects: African American Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 31–October 26, 2008.

"Statements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 24–September 25, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription: The photograph is inscribed in pencil, verso, lower edge: "#9/35 I Am A Man Portfolio, Panopticon Press, 1994 #65".

The photograph is signed in pencil, verso, lower right.

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