Press Conference, Lorraine Motel after Martin Luther King Was Shot, Memphis, Tennessee - High Museum of Art

Press Conference, Lorraine Motel after Martin Luther King Was Shot, Memphis, Tennessee

Steve Schapiro

American, 1936–2022

Press Conference, Lorraine Motel after Martin Luther King Was Shot, Memphis, Tennessee

Details

Title

Press Conference, Lorraine Motel after Martin Luther King Was Shot, Memphis, Tennessee

Artist/Maker

Steve Schapiro (American, 1936–2022)

Date

1968

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image/Plate: 13 x 8 11/16 inches

Credit

Purchase with funds from the H. B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust

Accession #

2007.226

On View

Currently not on view

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