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Series Title: American Monuments

Matthew Fontaine, Maury Monument, Richmond, Virginia

2020

Kris Graves

(American, b. 1982)
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Culture
America
Medium
inkjet print
Measurements
Image: 45.7 x 34.3 cm (18 x 13 1/2 in.); Paper: 50.9 x 40.7 cm (20 1/16 x 16 in.)
Credit Line
The Julius L. Greenfield Photography Acquisition Fund 2021.106.1
Edition
edition 2/15
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Protests spurred by the death of George Floyd led to the removal of a number of monuments honoring the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, in 2020.

Description

The memorials, which lined Richmond’s Monument Avenue, became a focus of protests against White suprematism and police violence against Blacks. National Geographic commissioned Kris Graves to photograph these artworks, which were the center of debates about who and what ought to be memorialized. This monument honored oceanographer and Confederate States Navy officer Matthew Fontaine Maury, sometimes called the Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology.

Matthew Fontaine, Maury Monument, Richmond, Virginia

2020

Kris Graves

(American, b. 1982)
America

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