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Title: City in flames
Date Created and/or Issued: 2006
Publication Information: Scripps College
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Ken Gonzales-Day Collection
Rights Information: All rights are retained by Ken Gonzales-Day. For permission to use this item, contact the artist.
Description: Composite image of Watts Riots (1965), Salazar or East Los angeles Riot (1972), Rodney King uprising (1992), an unidentified image form Siqueiros photographic archive, and a smoke cloud from the Los Angeles Fires (2003). The oldest image is at the bottom. The top image was taken by the artist during the 1995 fires in Los Angeles. The project grew out of an invitation to work with an image from the photographic archive of the Mexican muralist David Siqueiros. The work was part of a group exhibition held at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) in 2006.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: RC10_kgd00164.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/kgd/id/150
Subject: Riots California
Fire
Smoke
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: 148 x 44 inches; Inkjet on vinyl; 2006
Relation: An Image Bank for Everyday Revolution
Ken Gonzales-Day - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/kgd

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