Popularly known for his focus on consumer products and portraits of Hollywood stars, Warhol also acknowledged the images of death and destruction found in the media. He selected stark images of an electric chair, graphic car crashes, and police brutality during civil rights protests, which he then juxtaposed with planes of rich, brilliant color. Rather than enlarging and sensationalizing such provocative scenes, Warhol repeated a selected detail, making an image that could at the same time be appreciated for its abstract formal qualities while capturing the increasingly uneasy climate in America.