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![[A Philip Morris Companies Inc. ad in the September 22, 1986 issue of The New Yorker.]
He sees the things we wish we'd seen.
Monrovia, Liberia, Early 60's
March on Selma. 1965
Boy in Harlem, mid 60's
You are looking at images of an era, photographs taken over 30 turbulent years of challenge and change. They are part of an extraordinary exhibition titled "Moneta Sleet, Jr.: Pulitzer-Prize Photojournalist" at The New York Public Library from September 19
through November 8, 1986
Since 1955, Sleet has been a working photographer for Ebony and Jet magazines, with an insider's ticket to great events and a magician's trick of snatching the timeless moment from the stream of time. It was he who isolated and rescued, from the devastating tragedy of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., an unforgettable image of enduring serenity and, from the terrors of the March on Selma, the forever blithe spirit of the woman marcher, clapping hands to the sound of singing in the rain. Wherever he goes, he sees things we would like to have seen, and now we can.
That's one reason we sponsored this exhibition and why we urge you to see it. In our business, as in yours, we need to be reminded that we must look beneath the surface and see the timeless as well as the temporary, the enduring as well as the fleeting.
Sponsorship of art that reminds us of these things is not patronage, it's a business and human necessity.
Philip Morris Companies Inc.
It takes art to make a company great.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3evjdaj3xeer5qdrwpmdcv4/bafkreig4xpmr3kkdd36wpapyfripenfasp3zyiig43dhg7qsqdg6ymtogu)
