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10/52 #BackToTheFuture
The person is standing in front of an electric sign created by Sam Durant, a Los Angeles artist. The text originally appeared on a protest sign used in a Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C., 1963. Although the original text is specific to the Civil Rights Movement and certainly has a strong impact on this 50th anniversary of the march on Selma, it can also be meaningful in a variety of contexts. Indeed, the more things change, the more they stay the same...
From Durant's website: "The texts [for the signs] are sourced from photographs of protest marches, sit ins, uprisings or other events around liberation struggles, mainly during the 1960s and '70s but also including recent events. The criterion for selecting the images is both simple and specific. The photo should contain an image of a hand made sign and the text or message on the sign should be general in nature. The message should not refer to any specific event, cause, person or time, in other words, text that could have more than one meaning depending on the context or time in which they are seen."
10/52 #BackToTheFuture
The person is standing in front of an electric sign created by Sam Durant, a Los Angeles artist. The text originally appeared on a protest sign used in a Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C., 1963. Although the original text is specific to the Civil Rights Movement and certainly has a strong impact on this 50th anniversary of the march on Selma, it can also be meaningful in a variety of contexts. Indeed, the more things change, the more they stay the same...
From Durant's website: "The texts [for the signs] are sourced from photographs of protest marches, sit ins, uprisings or other events around liberation struggles, mainly during the 1960s and '70s but also including recent events. The criterion for selecting the images is both simple and specific. The photo should contain an image of a hand made sign and the text or message on the sign should be general in nature. The message should not refer to any specific event, cause, person or time, in other words, text that could have more than one meaning depending on the context or time in which they are seen."