Newark Riots, Day After Day
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 34 × 50 cm (13 3/8 × 19 11/16 in.) sheet: 40.64 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alexander Wolf Levy)
Accession Number
2016.22.121
Art Historical Context
In the summer of 1967, Newark, New Jersey, erupted in riots amid racial tensions, police brutality, and economic inequality—part of the "Long Hot Summer" of urban unrest across America. Benedict J. Fernandez, a pioneering documentary photographer, captured the raw intensity of these events in *Newark Riots, Day After Day*. This gelatin silver print, measuring 34 × 50 cm, offers a stark, unflinching view of the chaos, blending journalistic urgency with artistic precision to document a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights era. Fernandez's work exemplifies mid-20th-century photojournalism, using t...