SMALL PRESS

Public Collectors publication #75 is another dive into the world of discarded and resold press photo archives.

Protest Grim Reapers reproduces details from 27 press photos spanning from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.  Where available, the stories behind each photo are included.

The grim reaper is an enduring figure at demonstrations.  The reaper—or sometimes simply an angel of death—appears at protests for any cause where the gravity of a death figure feels appropriate.  The reaper traditionally carries a scythe and wears a black hood and a skull mask or skull face paint, but sometimes the scythe is replaced with a different symbolic object.