Port Said during the Suez War
1956
Artist, American, born Poland, 1911 - 1956
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 35.3 × 28.2 cm (13 7/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
sheet: 35.88 × 28.58 cm (14 1/8 × 11 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4976
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
David Seymour/Magnum Photos Inc., New York; Eileen Shneiderman, sister of the artist, 1956; Ben Shneiderman, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2003; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2006
Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 18 – June 4, 2006; Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, September 11 – December 10, 2006; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, January 20 – April 22, 2007
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: Port Said; center on diagonal: 393-7A; center in red pencil: SEYMOUR; lower center stamped in black ink inside rectangle: MAGNUM / PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT / NEW YORK. / [line] / LOG REF: [graphite annotation along line: 8922] / TO BE RETURNED.; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 2003.44.24
Wikidata ID
Q64146131