ROBERT A. SENGSTACKE (1943 - 2017) Dr. Martin Luther King, Chicago.
Vintage gelatin silver print on original mount, 1965. 165x228 mm; 6½x9 inches (image). Signed and dated on mount, verso.
This image from Robert Sengstacke is of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leading a march along State Street in 1966. An important photographer associated with the Black Arts Movement, he contributed images of African American political and cultural leaders to his family's newspaper, The Chicago Defender. His photographs have recently been exhibited in Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Brooklyn Museum, 2014, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, 2017, and Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950-1980, Art Institute of Chicago, 2018. His photographs are in public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
