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Flag Day, Harlem

1966
(American, b. 1941)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 20.1 x 18.7 cm (7 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.); Paper: 20.1 x 18.7 cm (7 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Jo Hershey Selden Fund 2021.145
Location: not on view
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Images of Black people with American flags were taken by many mid-twentieth-century Black photographers

Description

Often, as in Beuford Smith’s Flag Day, the person is distanced from the flag, which represents a country that does not offer them protection equal to that of its other citizens. We do not know the source of the grimace on the woman’s face, but in the context of this composition, it suggests her disillusionment with the American dream.
Flag Day, Harlem

Flag Day, Harlem

1966

Beuford Smith

(American, b. 1941)
America

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