This group of photographs is based on historic postcards of California lynching victims that circulated in American culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To produce these works, Gonzales-Day photographed the original images and then digitally removed the victims. In doing so, he redirected viewers’ attention away from the victim and towards the actions of the perpetrators. Regionally inflected words and phrases like “cowboy justice” and “bandito” printed on the original postcards contextualize these events.
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Title
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Erased Lynchings
- Artist
- Date
- 2006
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- dimensions variable
- Copyright
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© 2006, Ken Gonzales-Day
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Mediums Description
- fifteen inkjet prints
- Classifications
- Object Number
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2012.12.2A-O
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI