Operation Port Said

1956

David Seymour

Artist, American, born Poland, 1911 - 1956

Magnum Photos

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ben Shneiderman

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 29.21 x 19.37 cm (11 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.122.10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ben Shneiderman, Bethesda, MD; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1998

  • Bondi, Inge. Chim: The Photographs of David Seymour. Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1998, p. 187

2003

  • David Seymour/Chim. Spain: Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, 2003.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 399-21; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite circled: 23; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 56-14-8-30 (the numbers 8 and 30 are written by a different hand on top of numbers 7 and 23); center, stamped in blue ink in a box: DAVID SEYMOUR- MAGNUM Photos; by unknown hand, center in blue ink: No0434; lower left, stamped in black ink in a box: MAGNUM PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT NEW YORK LOG REF: 8922 [TO BE] RETURNED; center right, printed in black ink on label: 23. Operation Port Said (1956): View in Port Said showing damage inflicted by the fighting. Flooding has probably been caused by broken water main. Not all the public utilities had been restored by November 11th.

Wikidata ID

Q64146059

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