Untitled (Student Challenges New Mexico Army National Guards)
Artist
Unknown Maker
Date1970
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 3/8 × 6 5/8 in. (11.1 × 16.8 cm)
Support: 5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Paige Pinnell, 2011
Object number2011.14.21
DescriptionA student challenges a group of New Mexico Army National Guards at University of New Mexico protest.eMuseum Notes
No title (Lone Student Challenges Guardsmen) shows a student in front of a group of Guardsmen. From a series of gelatin silver photographs by an unidentified photography student documenting the May, 1970, strike at the University of New Mexico. The strike occurred after four antiwar students at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen while protesting the invasion of Cambodia by the United States military during the Viet Nam War. The photographs culminate with the bayonetting of thirteen individuals, however, none were killed.
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