Robert Sengstacke
American, 1943-2017
Untitled (Young Couple)
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Robert Sengstacke
American, 1943-20171967
Untitled (Young Couple)
Robert Sengstacke American, 1943-2017 →20th Centuryphotographphotography
Date
1967
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 16.4 × 25.2 cm (6 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.); Paper: 27.7 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by John A. Bross
In 1967 Robert “Bobby” A. Sengstacke became a founding member of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), which conceived the Wall of Respect, an outdoor mural located at 43rd Street and South Langley Avenue. Completed in 1967 and destroyed in 1971, the mural featured Black heroes and heroines grouped into seven sections: Jazz, Literature, Religion, Rhythm and Blues, Sports, Statesmen, and Theater. This image, taken shortly after the Wall of Respect was completed, depicts a young couple who lived on the second floor of a building directly opposite the mural. In exchange for taking their portrait, the couple allowed Sengstacke to make photographs of the Wall from their apartment window. The resulting images were the most widely circulated images of the mural in its original form.
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