Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Digital print of multiple images with the text Historical Amnesia
ca. 2004; printed 2012
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A color photograph composite of a young man's face looking into the camera. It is a composite of multiple photos; behind the boy's face is a city street scene with shadowy figures on the pavement. Layered over the boy's face are the words "HISTORICAL AMNESIA” repeated seven times.
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Catalog reference: 2013.140.6
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