Untitled (Strike Marshall and Airborne Helicopter)
Artist
Unknown Maker
Date1970
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsSupport: 9 × 5 7/8 in. (22.9 × 14.9 cm)
Image: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Image: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Paige Pinnell, 2011
Object number2011.14.23
DescriptionClose view of a strike marshall wearing a white headband on the University of New Mexico campus, with helicopter overhead in background.eMuseum Notes
No title (Student Striker) presents portrait of a student striker taken outdoors. From a series of gelatin silver photographs by unidentified photography students 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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