United We Stand: Rally For Colin Kaepernick at NFL Headquarters
Photograph of a couple wearing t-shirts with the Devin Allen Time magazine cover
- On View
- Visual Arts Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
- Photograph by
- McCoy, Michael A., American, born 1982
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Kaepernick, Colin Rand, American, born 1987
- National Football League, American, founded 1920
- Time Inc., American, founded 1922
- Allen, Devin, American, born 1989
- David Von Drehle, American, born 1961
- Gray, Freddie, American, 1990 - 2015
- Date
- August 23, 2017
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- H x W: 6000 pixels × 4780 pixels
- File size (Total): 82.09 MB
- Caption
- Michael McCoy creates subtle yet powerful narratives through his images. As a photojournalist, he has documented some of the most important moments in contemporary history and everyday culture. From his coverage of Congress and presidential campaigns to moments of national celebration and mourning, McCoy’s portraits have become recognizable in the pages of major news publications, which earned him a place on Time magazine’s “Top 100 Photos of 2020.” In this photograph, McCoy crafted a quiet image of a young couple wearing T-shirts that feature the Time magazine cover that introduced Devin Allen as a photographer. While the shirts and couple embody resistance, they also represent a quiet resilience found in everyday lives.
- Description
- A digital, color image of a man and a woman wearing graphic T-shirts with the Time magazine cover featuring Devin Allen’s photo from Freddie Gray protests. The image was taken by Michael A. McCoy during the United We Stand: Rally For Colin Kaepernick at the National Football League Headquarters. The unidentified rally attendees are seated on white marble steps in front of St. Bartholomew’s Church in mid-town Manhattan. The man sits on the step above the woman with his legs spread apart and feet planted two steps below. The woman is seated between his legs on the step below, with her back resting against his proper left thigh. They are facing viewer with serious expressions on their faces. The woman’s elbows are resting on her thighs with her hands folded over each other. They are wearing shorts, black sneakers, and matching, black T-shirts with a graphic of the cover of Time Vol. 185 No. 17 (May 11, 2015) on the front. The neckline of the woman’s shirt has been modified to widen the neckline so that it falls off the shoulder. The Time magazine graphic on the front of the T-shirts has a main cover line that reads [AMERICA, 1968] written in white text with a red ink strikethrough over [1968] and with [2015] printed in a red handwritten style font written above [1968]. Printed smaller, black text below reads [WHAT HAS CHANGED. / WHAT HASN’T]. The name of the author is printed in smaller white text below that reads [BY DAVID VON DREHLE]. The text is overlaid on top of a black-and-white photograph by Devin Allen of the Baltimore protests that erupted in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody. The photograph depicts an unidentified man running from a line of charging police in riot gear on a city street in Baltimore, Maryland. The man, in the right foreground, wears a medium tone plain shirt, dark pants, and dark tone shoes. He has on a white baseball-style cap worn backwards, and a dark-colored handkerchief tied at the back of his head and pulled up over his nose and mouth. The graphic of the magazine cover has a thin red border. Behind the couple, in the background, is the neoclassical exterior of St. Bartholomew’s Church with a double set of wooden doors with glass and black wrought iron decorative elements next to a carved, floral pattern marble panel and a carved, white marble column.
- Place captured
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Type
- digital images
- digital media - born digital
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Michael A. McCoy
- Object number
- 2021.41
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Michael A. McCoy
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.