Negative Print

Paul Caponigro

1963

  • Titles Negative Print (Proper)
  • Artist Paul Caponigro, American, born 1932
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 5/16 in. (27.6 × 33.8 cm) image: 10 5/16 × 13 in. (26.2 × 33 cm) mat: 18 × 22 in. (45.7 × 55.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI.77.2020
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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This painting represents an architecturally ornate Gulf Oil gas station with two pumps standing on the street in front of the building and Gulf Oil logos on the facade. The building stands at a spot where two streets meet. Behind the building is blue sky, a gas holder in the upper left corner, and the Birmingham city skyline in the upper right corner. In the foreground is a tree, power poles, and a car. The streets in front of the gas station are lined with streetcar tracks.
Press print with caption "NEGRO WOMAN BLOCKS BULLDOZER / A Negro woman hangs on blade of a bulldozer which was parked at the site of mobile classroom units at 74th Street and Lowe Ave. on Chicago's south side Aug. 2. Demonstration was staged by CORE which contends that Negro pupils should be sent to existing predominantly white schools rather than in temporary classrooms."
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