Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, Georgia, teenage girls are kept in a stockade in the countryside near Leesburg. Some had been in the stockade for a few days, others had been there for three weeks. They have no beds and no working sanitary facilities. I make pictures through the broken glass of the barred windows
Artist:
Danny Lyon
(American, born 1942)
General region:North and Central America
Topographic representation:Georgia, United States
Date: 1963, printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Ernest Pomerantz and Marie Brenner
Object number: 2016.26.135
Portfolio: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Signed: Signed and dated in pencil, verso
Markings: Bleak Beauty stamp on verso
Copyright: © Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos
Published References
Illustrated: Danny Lyon, Photo/Film (Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 1991), p. 78
Not on view
Not on view
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