Mass Incarceration (Johnny Cash)
date: label: date made
content: 2016
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Cash, Johnny
label: Associated Name
content: Public Enemy
label: Associated Name
content: Marshall, Jim
label: maker
content: Fairey, Shepard
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Mass incareceration, serigraph by Shepard Fairey from his "American Civics" series. This is a collage of multiple images. Jim Marshall's photographic portriat of Johnny Cash with Folsom Prison in the background is the central visual element. In the lower right corner is the mugshot of Martin Luther King, Jr. In the center of the image, on Cash's torso is a new paper article, part of the headline is visible, ". . .Must Go To Prison/ Lower Court Yields Final Decision . . .Supreme Court". On bottom edge left, the text "United Prisoner's Union/ Bill of Rights" is visible. Left edge bottom has a partial emblem with text, ". . . opaganda/ EDO/ & Justice" and a rised fist breaking wrist shackles. Upper right corner has text "Public Enemy" with a round grid like symbol. Rigth edge center is another news paper article, partial headline visible, "death. . .olice custod. . .ed a homicid. . .". Overall, print has some decorative tile-like patterns, is mostly red, black and warm yellow (ocre) ink.
label: Description (Brief)
content: See also Jim Marshall photograph 2013.0376.0001
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, Folsom
topic: label: Subject
content: Protest and Civil Disobedience
label: Subject
content: Musicians
label: Subject
content: Prisoners' Rights Movement
label: Subject
content: Prisons
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0376.0006
label: accession number
content: 2016.0376
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0376.0006
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: serigraph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 1/8 in x 30 1/8 in; 101.9175 cm x 76.5175 cm