Exchange: Inequality and the built environment

Inequality and the built environment

A man in low light peering over a raised surface with only his upper face and hand visible.

Gordon Parks
Emerging Man, Harlem, New York
photograph on paper
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm);17 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. (43.82 x 31.75 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the University of Michigan Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2019

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Photograph of a group of brick buildings, cropped to accentuate the building materials and other geometric details such as a window and door.

André Kertész
Brick Walls
gelatin silver print on paper
9 ½ in x 7 ½ in (24.13 cm x 19.05 cm)
Gift of Maxine and Lawrence K. Snider

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This is a black and white photograph showing a rocky outcropping with boulders and brush vegetation set agains a hazy scene of buildings and roads below. On the right are the rooftops of houses clustered at the base of the hillside and on the left are a group of laid foundations for a housing development. In the distance below are roads and buildings.

Joe Deal
Colton, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952

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This is a black and white photograph depicting a rocky landscape scene. There are sharp cliff walls, striated with grooves, and two dirt roads with tire tracks. In the center portion, there is a grouping of seventeen piles of dirt, all of a similar size, and scrub like vegetation. The viewpoint is from above looking down.

Joe Deal
San Bernardino, California (I), from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952

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Warrington Colescott
The Great Society 'Inner Core'
color etching on paper
22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (57 x 76.5 cm);17 7/8 x 18 in. (45.4 x 45.6 cm);22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (57 x 76.5 cm)
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection

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A "Norton Abrasives" wooden crate is filled with empty rusted gallon paint containers with dried paint inside. A cracked rearview mirror is attached to one side and an American flag is smushed into one side of the box. A small toy platypus sits inside one of the paint cans, although the platypus is moveable; instructions to museum state that museum staff can place platypus where they please.

Tyree Guyton
Untitled (Paint Cans)
paint cans, wooden crate, American flag, rearview mirror, and ceramic figurine
33 1/2 in x 28 1/8 in x 12 in (85.09 cm x 71.44 cm x 30.48 cm)
Gift of H. David Zucca

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A collage drawing with "When was the future?" in the middle of the object. The words are cut out of pictures of trees and a city's skyline. The background of the collage is the view of of a tall building and a cutout of a youth doing a handstand is placed on the balcony. A picture of a tree is included by the person.

Jakob Kolding
When was the future?
collage on paper
16 9/16 in. x 11 11/16 in. ( 42 cm x 29.7 cm )
Museum Purchase

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This is a photograph of an unloading dock for ore located in Wisconsin on Lake Superior.

Margaret Bourke-White
Ore Loading Docks, Superior, Wisconsin
gelatin silver print on paper mounted on masonite
82 in x 60 in (208.28 cm x 152.4 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Withers

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Interior view of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.

Berenice Abbott
Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan
gelatin silver print on paper
13 5/16 in x 10 1/2 in (33.81 cm x 26.67 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 1/8 in (56.2 cm x 46.04 cm);14 5/8 in x 11 11/16 in (37.15 cm x 29.69 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Ursula R. Freimarck through the Friends of the Museum of Art

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Algimantas Kezys
Figure and Squares, Toronto, Canada, from "Society's Man"
gelatin silver print on paper
23 7/8 in. x 20 5/16 in. ( 60.6 cm x 51.6 cm )
Gift of Dr. Milda Budrys

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Black and white image of a child with water being poured into their mouth by someone out of view.

LaToya Ruby Frazier
Shea brushing Zion's teeth with bottled water in her bathroom
gelatin silver print on paper
45 ½ in x 35 ½ in x 21 ½ in (115.57 cm x 90.17 cm x 54.61 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the University of Michigan Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2019

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The color screenprint depicts four dark skinned figures walking past a construction site—likely a family. The man is dressed in a black suit, black shoes, yellow tie, and tan hat. The woman wears a red and white dress, yellow jacket, and red cap. The little girl stands to the left of mother, holding her hand. She wears a yellow dress, white tights, brown shoes, and a red cap. A small boy wears brown pants, tan shoes, a yellow shirt, and blue jacket. He stands to the right of the father and holds his hand. <br /><br />
In the background, there are three men working at the construction site. There are two men in blue jumpsuits, one has dark skin and the other white. A third dark skinned man wears a gray jumpsuit and holds a saw. The print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Jacob Lawrence 1974" in pencil.

Jacob Lawrence
Builders (The Family)
screenprint on paper
34 in x 25 3/4 in (86.36 cm x 65.41 cm);29 15/16 in x 22 1/8 in (76.04 cm x 56.2 cm);38 3/4 in x 28 in (98.43 cm x 71.12 cm)
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis

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