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Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “A Fire That No Water Could Put Out: Civil Rights Photography” is on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta through Sunday, April 29. The exhibition, which takes its name from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final speech, reflecting on the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination with a presentation of over 40 photographs.
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Burk Uzzle, MLK Funeral street scene with National Guard, Atlanta, 1968, gelatin silver print.
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Doris Derby, Grass Roots Organizer, Mississippi, 1968, gelatin silver print.
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Doris Derby, L. C. Dorsey, Civil Rights Worker from Shelby, Mississippi, at the Vegetable Cooperative, Ruleville, Mississippi, 1968, gelatin silver print.
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Benedict J. Fernandez, Memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Central Park, New York City, 1968, gelatin silver print.
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Steve Schapiro, Dr. Martin Luther King's Motel Room after He Was Shot, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968, gelatin silver print.
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Burk Uzzle, Spectators at MLK Funeral, Atlanta, 1968, gelatin silver print.
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Gordon Parks, Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 (printed 2012), pigmented ink-jet print.
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Burk Uzzle, Crowd with Horse Drawn Casket in Atlanta Funeral of MLK, Atlanta, 1968, gelatin silver print.
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Charles Moore, Freedom Singing, Selma, Alabama, 1965, gelatin silver print.
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Ernest Withers, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, March 28, 1968, 1968, gelatin silver print.
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Unknown Photographer, Elizabeth Eckford Entering Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957, gelatin silver print.
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Charles Moore, Martin Luther King Jr. Arrested, Montgomery, Alabama, 1958, gelatin silver print.
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Bill Hudson, Police Dog Attack, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, gelatin silver print.
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Steve Schapiro, Freedom Bus Riders, Summer of '64, Oxford, Ohio,1964, gelatin silver print.
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James E. Hinton, James Baldwin and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the W.E.B. DuBois Centennial Celebration, Carnegie Hall, New York, 1968, gelatin silver print.
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David Alekhuogie, Birth Home, 2013, archival pigment print.
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Sheila Pree Bright (American, born 1967), #1960Now_Atlanta_protest in Buckhead: "Atlanta is Ready" Philando Castile and Alton Sterling Atlanta, GA July 2016, 2016, digital silver gelatin print.
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Dawoud Bey, Mary Parker and Caela Cowan, 2014, pigmented ink-jet print.
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Sheila Pree Bright, #1960Now_Ferguson_protest: National March in Ferguson, "We Can't Stop" Mike Brown, Ferguson, MO March 2015, 2015, digital silver gelatin print.
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Installation view of "A Fire That No Water Could Put Out: Civil Rights Photography," 2017, at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
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