◇ After
Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Black Power salute, Mexico City Olympics · John Dominis (LIFE), 1968
The rabbit's right arm goes straight up into a clenched fist. The fist is a dark leather glove with the cuff showing, white fur above it. The glove, not the bare fist, fixes it to the medal stand.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
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