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American Monuments

Jefferson Davis Monument #2, Richmond, Virginia

2020
(American, b. 1982)
America
inkjet print
Image: 36.5 x 45.7 cm (14 3/8 x 18 in.); Paper: 40.7 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
The Julius L. Greenfield Photography Acquisition Fund 2021.106.8
Edition: edition 2/15
Location: not on view
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This monument to the president of the Confederacy was unveiled in 1907 and dismantled in 2020.

Description

Kris Graves affirms that a subtle shift in power is occurring in the former capital of the Confederacy in his “before” (search 2021.XXX) and “after” photographs of this monument to Jefferson Davis. Protesters toppled the statues on the monument in June 2020 near the start of a summer of protests against White supremacy and police violence against Blacks. The dark clouds of Graves’s “before” image are replaced here by a luminescent blue sky, injecting a sense of hope.
Jefferson Davis Monument #2, Richmond, Virginia

Jefferson Davis Monument #2, Richmond, Virginia

2020

Kris Graves

(American, b. 1982)
America

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