Title from caption on object: “Food Her Only Thought”
November 1956
Publisher, American, founded 1929
Publisher
Artist
Unknown 20th Century
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 15.3 × 21.7 cm (6 × 8 9/16 in.)
sheet: 17.8 × 23.2 cm (7 × 9 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.430
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by unknown hand, top center in orange crayon: Hungary; on verso, center right partially visible International News Photos copyright stamp in blue ink; center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: CREDIT: NBC NEWSREEL PHOTO FROM INP / FC1328742..WATCH YOUR CREDIT..INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTO / SLUG (WOMAN-RUBBLE) / FOOD HER ONLY THOUGHT / BUDAPEST, HUNGARY.....AN OLD WOMAN WITH A BURLAP SACK / IS SHOWN SEARCHING THE RUBBLE OF BUDAPEST FOR FOOD. / HUNGARIAN [circled in orange crayon] WORKERS HAVE ADOPTED AN ATTITUDE OF PASSIVE / RESISTANCE AGAINST THEIR RED RULERS. REFUSING TO WORK / IN THE FACTORIES OR OPERATE THE TRUCKS AND TRAINS / NECESSARY TO BRING FOOD INTO THE CITY. EVEN IF THEY / DID, FOOD WOULD STILL BE AT A PREMIUM AS AN AFTERMATH / OF THE BLOODY FIGHTING. UNITED NATIONS MACHINERY IS / BEING SET IN MOTION TO BRING RELIEF TO THE STARVING / HUNGARIANS. / PB-11-13-56 NBC NEWSREEL FROM INP (F) / [by unknown hand in graphite: 2]