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Bikers Take a Break. Sunday Afternoon in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, September 1973, from the series Southern Roads/City Pavements

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A back story is always featured in Freeman’s photographs, providing an implicit chronicle that links the people in his pictures with a larger narrative. Bikers Take a Break is not only an image of hip young men showing off lean bodies, it is also a reminiscence of black Baltimoreans coming together on Sunday afternoons for the beating of the drums, an informal gathering that serves as a reminder of a time in history when drumming was banned by slave owners because it kept alive the legacy of African culture.African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
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Gelatin Silver Print
Rights:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George H. Dalsheimer
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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Architecture
  4. Baltimore
  5. Cityscape
  6. Cityscapes
  7. Druid Hill Park
  8. Ethnic
  9. Ethnicity
  10. Figure Group
  11. Freeman, Roland L
  12. Landscape
  13. Landscapes
  14. Male
  15. Maryland
  16. Men
  17. Motorcycle
  18. Motorcycles
  19. Park
  20. Parks
  21. Vehicle
  22. Vehicles

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