Digital image of American civil rights figures projected onto French Pantheon

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A digital, color image by D. Michael Cheers captures two images of Martin Luther King, Jr. projected onto the French Pantheon mausoleum during Josephine Baker’s induction into France’s Pantheon. Baker’s ceremonial cenotaph is placed in front of the mausoleum, draped in a French flag with a shadowbox display cased holding Baker’s military medals laid on top. The cenotaph is flanked by platforms with printed black-and-white and color images of Baker. On the left is a large screen displaying the projected mausoleum. Behind the screen is the siding of the building Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève.

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