Portrait of Otho Barnes
- Photograph by
- Olson, Martha, American
- Subject of
- Barnes, Otho, American, 1876 - 1975
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
- H x W (Paper Frame Closed): 17 × 14 1/16 in. (43.2 × 35.7 cm)
- H x W (Paper Frame Open): 17 × 28 1/16 in. (43.2 × 71.3 cm)
- Caption
- Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of integration in Mississippi public schools. During that time, Olson photographed local students, their relatives, and other residents of Marion County, which she later compiled into a series entitled, "Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971."
- Description
- A black and white photograph of Otho Barnes. Barnes is seated in a chair wearing long-sleeved shirt, pants, and suspenders. A folding chair is folded up behind the chair Barnes is sitting in. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame by plastic photo corners. [Mr. Otho Barnes / 1970 / Martha Olson] is handwritten in pencil on the interior frame below the photograph. On the back of the photograph ahandwritten inscription reads [Mr. Otho Barnes, 95 years old, Marion County, Columbia, MS 1970].
- Place depicted
- Columbia, Marion County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Portfolio/Series
- Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Martha Olson
- Object number
- 2018.21.51
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Martha Olson
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