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Digital print of multiple images with the text Historical Amnesia

ca. 2004; printed 2012

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A color photograph composite of a young man's face looking into the camera. It is a composite of multiple photos; behind the boy's face is a city street scene with shadowy figures on the pavement. Layered over the boy's face are the words "HISTORICAL AMNESIA” repeated seven times.

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Catalog reference: 2013.140.6

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