Object Details
- Caption
- Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of integration in Mississippi public schools. During that time, Olson photographed local students, their relatives, and other residents of Marion County, which she later compiled into a series entitled, "Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971."
- Description
- A black and white photograph of Liza Johnson. Johnson is featured from the chest up and is looking directly into the camera. She is wearing a patterned top under a sweater. The photograph is inside a frame. The back of the frame has several inscriptions about the subject of the photograph, the photographer, and numbers.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Martha Olson, American
- Subject of
- Liza Johnson, American
- Date
- 1970
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Martha Olson
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 9 3/4 × 7 1/16 in. (24.8 × 17.9 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 16 11/16 × 14 1/2 in. (42.4 × 36.8 cm)
- H x W (Frame): 19 13/16 × 17 5/8 in. (50.3 × 44.8 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
