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Maker(s):	Garlington, Michael
Culture:	American (1977- )
Title:	Brotherhood and the American Flag
Date Made:	2001
Type:	Photograph
Materials:	Gelatin silver prints mounted in hinged wooden black-painted frame; flag scrap, staples, metal hinges, plastic knob with embedded red flower
Place Made:	United States
Measurements:	frame: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 in.; 64.135 x 53.975 cm; mat: 24 x 20 in.; 60.96 x 50.8 cm; sheet: 16 1/4 x 13 in.; 41.275 x 33.02 cm; image: 15 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.; 39.37 x 31.115 cm
Accession Number:	MH 2005.3
Credit Line:	Purchase with the Madeleine Pinsof Plonsker (Class of 1962) Fund
Museum Collection:	Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Description:
Two standing men wearing Ku Klux Klan gowns and hoods appear in the framed photograph on the front of the work. When the frame is opened using the handle at right, one sees a scrap of a dirty American flag stapled to left side of door, another image appears in the right-hand frame, now showing the two men without hoods and revealing that they are Black

Subjects:
Photographic gelatin

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