Soiling of Old Glory, 1976
MediumGelatin silver print
State/print versionprinted later
Image dimensions18,9 × 20,1 cm
About the workDuring a demonstration in Boston on 5 April 1976, Joseph Rakes, a white teenager and opponent of school desegregation measures, attacked Ted Landsmark, a Black lawyer who happened to be walking by. The picture by press photographer Stanley Forman became a national symbol of the insistence by large, violent swathes of the white population to preserve discriminatory structures across all of society. Forman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977. “Old Glory” is a nickname for the flag of the United States that dates back to the American Civil War (1861–1865).
AccessionGift 2019
Provenance[...]; 2019 erworben durch Schenkung von Kicken Berlin in Erinnerung an Rudolf Kicken
Inventory numberF.2019.2535
