Artist
Susan Muniak
Three Generations, Finley's Gym
Date1992
MediumSilver gelatin print
Dimensions16 x 24 in. (40.6 x 61 cm)
Framed Size: 21 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (54.6 x 69.9 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2000.097
ClassificationsPhotographs
Locations
- Department of Human Resources (1015 Half Street SE, 9th Floor)
DescriptionFor 41 years, from 1960 to 2001, Finley’s Gym (also called Finley’s Boxing Club) existed above an auto-repair shop in an alley between 9th and 10th Streets in Northeast DC. Sugar Ray Leonard and world champion light-heavyweight Bob Foster both trained there along with an array of other amateur and professional fighters, and it was visited by the likes of Mike Tyson, George Foreman, even jazz musician Miles Davis. But mostly, it was a place of steadiness and hard work. Muniak photographed there starting around 1988, becoming close with the boxers and documenting the essence of this boxing mecca.
