id: 438502 accession number: 2021.31 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.31 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:33.665000 Joining the Ranks: A Catholic nun and two priests stand in the rain with marathon demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. The group has remained at a police barricade two days and nights after being refused permission to march to the courthouse. From left: Reverend Clement Burns, New Haven, Connecticut; Sister Alberta, Wilmington, Delaware; and Reverend Robert McGratti, Hartford, Connecticut, March 12, 1965, 1965. America. Gelatin silver print, wirephoto; image: 17.1 x 22.6 cm (6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.); paper: 20.3 x 25.3 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2021.31 title: Joining the Ranks: A Catholic nun and two priests stand in the rain with marathon demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. The group has remained at a police barricade two days and nights after being refused permission to march to the courthouse. From left: Reverend Clement Burns, New Haven, Connecticut; Sister Alberta, Wilmington, Delaware; and Reverend Robert McGratti, Hartford, Connecticut, March 12, 1965 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1965 creation date earliest: 1965 creation date latest: 1965 current location: 230 Photography creditline: Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg copyright: --- culture: America technique: gelatin silver print, wirephoto department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 17.1 x 22.6 cm (6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.3 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Imprinted in black type on white paper label adhered to verso: "dfpx 69679" translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "CVL-AL-023 2000" translation: remark: inscription: Imprinted in black type on paper label taped to verso: "Nun and two priests hold their places at the Selma (circled in blue ink) barricade/AP Photo/MAR 13 1965" translation: remark: inscription: Imprinted in black ink on verso: "NOTICE (remaining text faded and illegible)" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Photographs in Ink opening date: 2022-11-20T05:00:00 Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY date: ?-2021 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 1, 2021 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Clergy came from all over the country to join a voting rights march in Selma, Alabama. digital description: A peaceful march seeking equal voting rights for Blacks set out from Selma toward Montgomery on March 7, 1965. They were soon attacked by state troopers with whips, nightsticks, and tear gas. Television and newspaper coverage of this brutal response inspired clergy and social activists from across the country to join another attempt to reach the state capitol. The protesters were again turned back on March 17 but completed the march on March 21-25. wall description: Wirephotos revolutionized the speed of the distribution of news images. In a process similar to that of a fax machine, a gelatin silver print and any desired caption would be scanned at a news office that housed one of these costly devices. The photograph’s various gray tones were translated into electronic pulses and sent across the wire to regional newspapers around the country. Those pulses would then be “printed” with light onto another sheet of light-sensitive photo paper. The intermediary working prints on view here were used to create the final photograph, printed in ink in the newspaper. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES