- Photograph by
- Freed, Leonard, American, 1929 - 2006
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- 20th Anniversary March on Washington, founded 1983
- Printed by
- Freed, Brigitte, American
- Inirio, Pablo
- Date
- August 27, 1983; printed 2013
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 8 3/4 × 13 in. (22.2 × 33 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
- Description
- A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of participants wading in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, August 27, 1983. In the foreground of the image is a woman centrally depicted standing in the Reflecting Pool with her back to the viewer. The woman is wearing a medium toned short sleeve shirt and shorts. She is standing with her back to the viewer with her face turned in profile towards the left side of the image. She is facing a shirtless man who is leaning towards the water with his proper left hand on one hip and his proper right hand partially in the water. There is a diagonal line of six (6) fountain spouts spraying water extending from the right foreground to the left middle ground. Several more participants are standing behind the man and the woman in the water.
- On the verso of the image are handwritten inscriptions that provide the image date, event information, location, image number, the name of the printer, and the signature of the donor. There are also two (2) stamp marks in black ink in the bottom right corner of the verso.
- Place captured
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place printed
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Portfolio/Series
- USA. Second March on Washington.
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Activism
- Civil rights
- Local and regional
- Photography
- Politics
- Race relations
- U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Brigitte Freed in memory of Leonard Freed
- Object number
- 2016.123.2.17
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Leonard Freed & Magnum Photos, Inc
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




