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Roland L. Freeman, Bikers Take a Break. Sunday Afternoon in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, September 1973, from the series Southern Roads/City Pavements, 1973, printed 1982, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George H. Dalsheimer, 1991.80.6, © 1973, Roland L. Freeman
A back story is always featured in Freeman’s photographs, providing an implicit chronicle that links the people in his pictures with a larger narrative. Bikers Take a Break is not only an image of hip young men showing off lean bodies, it is also a reminiscence of black Baltimoreans coming together on Sunday afternoons for the beating of the drums, an informal gathering that serves as a reminder of a time in history when drumming was banned by slave owners because it kept alive the legacy of African culture.
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
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Bikers Take a Break. Sunday Afternoon in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, September 1973, from the series Southern Roads/City Pavements
- Artist
- Date
- 1973, printed 1982
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 11 x 13 7⁄8 in. (28.1 x 35.2 cm.)
- Copyright
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© 1973, Roland L. Freeman
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of George H. Dalsheimer
- Mediums Description
- gelatin silver print
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Figure group – male
- Cityscape – Maryland – Baltimore
- Ethnic – African-American
- Landscape – park – Druid Hill Park
- Object Number
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1991.80.6
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