Are you a Nigger or a White Man? (Primary Title)

Danny Lyon, American, born 1942 (Artist)

1963
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 5 1/4 × 4 1/16 in. (13.34 × 10.32 cm)
Image: 5 × 3 5/8 in. (12.7 × 9.21 cm)
2016.589
Not on view
Signed by the artist on verso in graphite: Danny Lyon
Artist's stamp in black ink on verso: "Photography by / Danny Lyon / © 1969 MAGNUM PHOTOS / 72 West 45th STreet, N.Y.C. 10026". Printer stamp in black ink on verso: "Printer / BLEAK BEAUTY / Picture Date 63 / Print Date 63". Stamp in black ink on verso: "THIS PRINT IS NOT TO BE MOUNTED OR AIRBRUSHED". White adhesive label with "BLACKS / THE MOVEMENT" printed in black ink.
Inscribed in graphite on verso: "PRINT", "LYON - THE MOVEMENT", "Log #10480", "4944" [strike through], "A5 [encircled]" and "L4V-8X10-4005053". Inscribed in black ink on verso: "S8d" and "Proof" within the Bleak Beauty printer stamp.
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment
© Danny Lyon

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