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====Medium: [[:Category:Photography|Photography]]==== | ====Medium: [[:Category:Photography|Photography]]==== | ||
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'''Artist:''' Bill Thomas, Photographer | '''Artist:''' Bill Thomas, Photographer | ||
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'''Location:''' Foley's Department Store, Houston, Texas, USA | '''Location:''' Foley's Department Store, Houston, Texas, USA | ||
'''Description of Artwork:''' The installation ''Today's Special'' commemorated the 1960 sit-in protests that resulted in the integration of Houston's downtown lunch-counters. The provocative photograph, titled ''Racial Tensions'', featured black and white figures balanced on opposite ends of a see-saw, with nooses around their necks and hands tied behind their backs. The point of the piece according to Thomas was that, "balance must be maintained for them to survive, and any attempt by one to harm the other will result in mutual destruction." | '''Description of Artwork:''' The installation ''Today's Special'' commemorated the 1960 sit-in protests that resulted in the integration of Houston's downtown lunch-counters. The provocative photograph, titled ''Racial Tensions'', featured black and white figures balanced on opposite ends of a see-saw, with nooses around their necks and hands tied behind their backs. The point of the piece according to Thomas was that, "balance must be maintained for them to survive, and any attempt by one to harm the other will result in mutual destruction." | ||