Analyzing Ernest Withers Art

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Art can take the form of many styles and still accurately depict the time or the subject that the artist had wanted to create. Although very different in style, both Ernest Withers’ “Sanitation Workers Assemble in front of Clayborn Temple for a Solidarity March, Memphis, TN, March 28, 1968” and Beauford Delaney’s “Can Fire in the Park” are authentic to the time, place, and artist.

Withers’ art takes form as a gelatin silver print, a black and white photograph of several hundred black men gather with signs that say “I am a man”. Given the title,”Sanitation Workers Assemble in the front of Clayborn Temple for a Solidarity March, Memphis, TN, March 28, 1968”, the men are most likely waiting for their peaceful protest march to begin, one that

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