Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph Abernathy are escorted from the court house to the jail house.

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Title	Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph Abernathy are escorted from the court house to the jail house.
Artist	Danny Lyon
Date	1962
Institution	Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location	Not on view.

Medium:

Photographs, Photograph-Portfolio | gelatin silver print (printed 1999)

Size:

4 5/8 x 13 3/16 in. (11.75 x 33.5 cm) (image)11 x 13 7/8 in. (27.94 x 35.24 cm) (sheet)

Creation Place:

United States, Georgia, Albany

Culture:

United States, Georgia

Style:

20th century

Inscriptions:

"#6", in pencil, on back; "Printer/Kelton/BLEAK BEAUTY/1962 [star] 1999/Picture Date/Print Date", stamped, in red, and noted, in pencil, on back "Danny Lyon", in pencil, on back

Physical Description:

2 images printed next to each other on one sheet; left image: Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy in shirts and ties walking ahead of two white men wearing hats; right image: figures in profile from PR

Credit:

Collection Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison Fund

Accession Number:

2001.45.2.6

Artist:

Danny Lyon, American, born 1942

Role:

Photographer

Nationality:

American

Life Dates:

American, born 1942

Added to Site:

February 28, 2009