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Boobie Homeless and the Pigeon Coop from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Boobie Homeless and the Pigeon Coop from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

Boobie Homeless and the Pigeon Coop from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

Artist (American, born 1942)
Date1992–93, printed later
Period20th century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsObject Size: 11 x 14 inches
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Nicholas
Object number2015.152
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
Arsenio Playing Wiffleball from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Arsenio Playing Wiffleball from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Danny Lyon
1992–93, printed later
Object number: 2015.153
Kenny and Slex from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Kenny and Slex from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Danny Lyon
1992–93, printed later
Object number: 2015.151
Rooftop, Cypress Avenue from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Rooftop, Cypress Avenue from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Danny Lyon
1992-93/printed later
Object number: 2017.292
Reuben, from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Reuben, from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Danny Lyon
1992-93/printed later
Object number: 2018.255
Carlos Leaving the Football Game from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Carlos Leaving the Football Game from the series Let Them Kill Themselves, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Danny Lyon
1992-93/printed later
Object number: 2017.201
Se repulen [They spruce themselves up] from the series The Return to Goya’s Caprichos
Se repulen [They spruce themselves up] from the series The Return to Goya’s Caprichos
Enrique Chagoya
1999
Object number: 2008.019.05
“There are no pretty girls on my beat. Only the homeless mental patients, the overflow of the social service agencies, the derelicts,” said the officer. “The politicians and social workers think if they don’t see them, they don’t exist. Well, they do exist, and I’m expected to wipe the shit off the streets for them.”
“There are no pretty girls on my beat. Only the homeless mental patients, the overflow of the social service agencies, the derelicts,” said the officer. “The politicians and social workers think if they don’t see them, they don’t exist. Well, they do exist, and I’m expected to wipe the shit off the streets for them.”
Leonard Freed
1976
Object number: 2014.165
A la porte de l’Élysée. -Messieurs, le Prince m’a chargé de vous dire qu’il n’y était pas! -Comment! est-ce qu’il ne voudrait plus suivre nos conseils! -Non, il prétend que vous l’avez assez fourré dedans comme ça….. -Malheureuse France! malheureux Prince! [At the door of the Elysée. -Gentleman, the Prince has ordered me to say that he is not in today. -Does this mean he will not follow our advice any longer? -No, he claims you have let him down long enough… -Too bad for France! Too bad for the Prince!] from the series Actualités, number 29, published in Le Charivari
A la porte de l’Élysée. -Messieurs, le Prince m’a chargé de vous dire qu’il n’y était pas! -Comment! est-ce qu’il ne voudrait plus suivre nos conseils! -Non, il prétend que vous l’avez assez fourré dedans comme ça….. -Malheureuse France! malheureux Prince!
[At the door of the Elysée. -Gentleman, the Prince has ordered me to say that he is not in today. -Does this mean he will not follow our advice any longer? -No, he claims you have let him down long enough… -Too bad for France! Too bad for the Prince!]
from the series Actualités, number 29, published in Le Charivari
Honoré Daumier
published November 22, 1850
Object number: 1986.047
Hattiesburg, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Fannie Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain
Hattiesburg, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Fannie Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain
Danny Lyon
1963/printed later
Object number: 2014.138
Photo: Tad Merrick, Vermont
Hattiesburg, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Fannie Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted for trying to register, beaten in the Winona jail, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candidate for Congress. Miss Hamer is now recognized as one of the truly extraordinary women of American history.
Danny Lyon
1964
Object number: 2001.010.26
[Road to prison form inside car] Diagnostic Center is a processing for inmates entering prison. Men arrive there from county jails throughout the state. After about a month they are classified and assigned to a unit to begin their sentence from the series Conversations with the Dead
[Road to prison form inside car] Diagnostic Center is a processing for inmates entering prison. Men arrive there from county jails throughout the state. After about a month they are classified and assigned to a unit to begin their sentence from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968–69, printed later
Object number: 2015.154
Guns are passed to the picket tower; the line returns from work, Ferguson Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Guns are passed to the picket tower; the line returns from work, Ferguson Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968
Object number: 1983.038