May 1, 2012, Demonstrators rest in Union Square Park. Approximately 20,000 people gathered to celebrate May Day, the International Labor Day, and to protest economic inequality as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

May 1, 2012, Demonstrators rest in Union Square Park. Approximately 20,000 people gathered to celebrate May Day, the International Labor Day, and to protest economic inequality as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Photograph

Alan Chin

Maker
American, b. 1971

May 1, 2012, Demonstrators rest in Union Square Park. Approximately 20,000 people gathered to celebrate May Day, the International Labor Day, and to protest economic inequality as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

2012
Inkjet print
Image: 16.8 x 25.2 cm (6 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Overall: 21.9 x 28.9 cm (8 5/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2012
2012.0794.0006
Inscriptions recto (marker): 2

[no inscription verso]

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