Rowland Scherman “The March on Washington: A 50th Anniversary Remembrance”
Leica Gallery in New York
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Fifty years ago, on 28 August 1963, approximately 250,000 people of all races assembled in Washington, D.C. - the largest demonstration for freedom and jobs that our nation’s capital had ever experienced. The day’s climax was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream…” speech, described as one of the twentieth century’s most seminal visions of a search for national equality. Capturing the event was Rowland Scherman, a freelance photographer hired by the United States Information Agency. The photographer poignantly captures not only Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights leaders who accompanied him, but also James Baldwin, Jackie Robinson, Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Marlon Brando, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, as well as countless other notables. Scherman’s strength is his intertwining of the famous with the audience and their placards, contrasting unbelievably iconic individual portraits with
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from October 04, 2013 to November 09, 2013