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date: label: Date
content: June 14, 2020
name: label: Photograph by
content: Tommy Oliver, American, born 1984
label: Subject of
content: Corie Mattie
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
label: Subject of
content: George Perry Floyd Jr., American, 1973 - 2020
notes: label: Caption
content: Photographer Tommy Oliver is an award-winning producer and cinematographer in television and film. Best known for his 2020 documentary 40 Years a Prisoner on HBO, his docuseries Black Love (2017–2020) on OWN, and his feature film The Perfect Guy (2015), Oliver challenges audiences to question their assumptions about race, gender, and family. The film Kinyarwanda (2011), which Oliver co-produced, weaves together narratives of resilience during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It won the Sundance Film Festival’s award for World Cinema Drama and was recognized as one of the top 10 films of 2011. This photograph is part of a broader portfolio of images taken during Black Lives Matter rallies in Los Angeles between May 31 and June 14, 2020.
label: Description
content: A digital, black-and-white image of a banner by Corie Mattie displayed during the All Black Lives Matter march in Hollywood, California. The image was taken by Tommy Oliver during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. The image depicts the large white banner tethered to a chain link fence that forms a wall of a multi-storied, concrete parking garage. Painted, stenciled, large, black text across the front of the banner reads [RACISM IS A / PANDEMIC.]. On the left side of the banner, slightly over the letter “R” in [RACISM], is partially visible, reversed, upside down, white stenciled text that also reads [RACISM / IS A / PANDEMIC / #[LAHOPE?]DEALER]. On the right are two stenciled illustrations of doves in flight and above a black, hand painted initials and a black, stenciled hashtag in the bottom right corner that reads [CM #LAHOPEDEALER]. Mattie is clinging to the fencing to the left of the sign, photographing it with her cell phone. She is wearing a black shirt T-shirt, striped shorts, sunglasses, square shaped drop earrings, a bandana around her neck, a black face mask with a white graphic, and a light tone backpack over her shoulders. The initials [CM] tattooed on her proper right hand matches the [CM] painted in the bottom right corner of the banner. Below this sign at street level are the heads of a group of protesters, many of whom are wearing face masks, or other types of protective face coverings, and a couple of protesters carrying protest signs. There is a parked car visible inside the parking garage.
place: label: Place captured
content: Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
title: label: Title
content: Photograph of a Corie Mattie banner at the All Black Lives Matter march
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Police brutality
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 2001-
label: Topic
content: Urban life
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Black Lives Matter
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Tommy and Codie Oliver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.31.68
objectType: label: Type
content: digital images
label: Type
content: digital media - born digital
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Tommy Oliver
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: digital
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 4480 pixels × 6720 pixels
label: Dimensions
content: File size: 172.29 MB