File:Michna-Bales ST ReadyforBattle.jpg

Photograph by Jeanine Michna-Bales, Ready for Battle (from Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaign for Women's Suffrage, autochrome archival pigment print, 2019). The image illustrates a key earlier photographic essay series in artist Jeanine Michna-Bales's career from the latter 2010s, when she produced the project and book, Standing Together: Photographs of Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign for Women’s Suffrage (2016–20), a visual account of the largely forgotten story of Inez Milholland, a lawyer, journalist and activist (and eventual martyr) for the women's suffrage cause. The image—the opening one for the series—represents Milholland setting off on the journey, depicting a woman in a suffrage dress, sash and crown holding an American flag like a sentinel atop a grassy hill. This body of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist Jeanine Michna-Bales. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key, mid-career photographic essay series in artist Jeanine Michna-Bales's career from the latter 2010s: her project and book, Standing Together: Photographs of Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign for Women’s Suffrage (2016–20), which provided a visual account of the largely forgotten, story of Inez Milholland, a lawyer, journalist and activist at the forefront of the women's suffrage cause. The project juxtaposed evocative landscape photographs and historical re-enactments with archival materials such as maps, news clippings, documents and artifacts in order to bring the history to life. he photographs chronicle vistas, flora and fauna that Milholland described in letters, while staged still lifes and re-enactments using diverse stand-ins depict moments in her journey. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this early and widely recognized body of work, which brought Michna-Bales widespread, ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Michna-Bales's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Jeanine Michna-Bales, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.