A98.37.2

Martin Luther King Way, West Oakland
1993
Gift of the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
A98.37.2

frame
On mat, in pencil, lower proper left, "Lewis Watts 1998"
On mat, in pencil, lower center/proper left:"12/50"
Urban Footprints: The Photographs of Lewis Watts; Oakes Gallery 9/5/98-2/28/99

Photo of a man with a shopping cart full of bottles. Store sign in background. Exhibition Label: "Scene in Oakland", Oakland Museum of California March 9 - August 25, 2002 63. Lewis Watts (b. 1946) Martin Luther King Way, 1993 Gelatin silver print Gift of Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Lewis Watts has said his photographs "explore evidence of culture, history and life as reflected on the surface of environments inhabited and used primarily by people of African American descent in neighborhoods of West Oakland." Much of that statement is revealed in this scene that carries contemporary cultural clues and messages, both literal and symbolic, that Watts has called the "neighborhood's footprints."
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