July 4th Celebration, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Object Details

Exhibition Label: Smoke fills the air as fireworks stream down on a Louisville parking lot. Nearby, a group of men huddle around the engine of a wrecked race car, unaware of the festivities surrounding them. Marking the nation’s bicentennial in 1976, Robert Hower juxtaposed two distinctly American traditions: Fourth of July fireworks and automobiles. Hower participated in a photographic survey of Kentucky sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts, which was intended to commemorate this landmark event in U.S. history. A wide range of people posed for his camera, many in front of their homes and with their families, in rural areas of the state that most viewers would otherwise never see.; A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013

Credit Line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts
Copyright: ©1976, Robert K. Hower

1976

Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: sheet: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.5 × 27.6 cm) image: 13 3/4 × 8 5/8 in. (34.9 × 21.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic: Architecture\vehicle\automobile; Figure group\male; Ceremony\holiday\Fourth of July; Ceremony\other\fireworks; Cityscape\Kentucky\Louisville; Architecture Exterior\other\parking lot

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