Birmingham, Alabama—Negro Leader’s Home Bombed

May 12, 1963

  • Titles Birmingham, Alabama—Negro Leader's Home Bombed (Descriptive)
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase, 2011.55
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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This bronze sculpture represents the head of a woman on a self-socle. The woman faces forward and her lips are parted slightly. She wears a crown of laurel in her loosely gathered hair. Below her head is an inscription that reads "NIKH-EIPHNH."
Right side of the foreground occupied by four trees, the nearest of which is weathered and lacks its leaves; further back in space and at the center of the composition sits the Half Dome; the moon, against a star-spangled sky, is shown peering its upper half over a cloud formation near the upper left hand corner.
This black and white photograph represents a closely cropped image of a white woman's face. She looks to her left. The top of her head is cropped out of the image, but a bright piece of jewelry can be seen in her hair (or possibly on a hat). She wears a large diamond and pearl earring on her right ear and a three-strand pearl necklace. The right shoulder of her dark coat can be seen in the lower left of the image.
A Relic (Peg Leg), Frederic Remington, pen and black ink