Untitled (Group of Boys and Swastika)

Vivian Cherry

1948

Photograph of five young boys standing and sitting in various poses on crumbling foundation of a wall with swastika drawn on it. One boy points a flat wooden stick at another boy, who is giving a metal object to a seated boy.
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Creator Bio

Vivian Cherry

1920–2019

Born in New York, photographer Vivian Cherry began working in the 1940s, and in 1947 she joined the social realist Photo League. She studied with Sid Grossman, one of its founders. After an extended break from photography, from 1957 to 1987, Cherry took up her camera again. She exhibited extensively and her works are part of the permanent collections in numerous museums, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

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