
Steve Schapiro
James Baldwin, Colored Entrance Only, Durham, North Carolina, 1963
Silver gelatin print
20 x 16 inches
Image: 19 3/16 x 12 13/16 inches
Paper: 19 15/16 x 15 15/16 inches
Image: 19 3/16 x 12 13/16 inches
Paper: 19 15/16 x 15 15/16 inches
Edition of 25
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned on artist label
Literature
"The Fire Next Time" - TASCHENPage 261
In The Fire Next Time, Baldwin described his dining experience with Elijah Muhammad. In Durham, North Carolina, in 1963, he stopped at Muhammad's Mosque of Islam and paused before an ugly Jim Crow sign.