Draft Dodger, Haight Ashbury - Tang Teaching Museum

Collection Artwork

Artist

Elaine Mayes (born Berkeley, California, 1938)

Title

Draft Dodger, Haight Ashbury

Creation date

1968

Materials

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

frame size: 20 7/8 x 16 7/8 in.
image size: 8 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.

Credit Line

The Jack Shear Collection of Photography at the Tang Teaching Museum

Place of Creation

photographed in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California, United States, North America

Accession Number

2020.31.179

Object Type

Photographs

Marks

Inscribed in blue ink, verso, upper left: 2
Inscribed in blue ink, verso, center: 57-11
Inscribed and dated, verso, center: Draft Dodger / Haight Ashbury 1968
Signed, dated, and inscribed, verso, lower center: Elaine Mayes 2007 (vintage 1968)
Signed, inscribed and dated, verso, lower right: Elaine Mayes / Haight Ashbury 1968
Inscribed, verso, lower left: 2 [encircled]
Inscribed, verso, lower right: L69.53.14

Elaine Mayes documented a generation of young people living in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, a community hospitable to countercultural and revolutionary ideas. There she photographed this Vietnam War draft dodger, one of over 500,000 young men classified as draft offenders during the Vietnam era.

From the exhibition: Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy (July 9 – December 18, 2022)

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