Title from caption on object: “Too Late to Save Her...”
January 26, 1965
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17.2 × 22.7 cm (6 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.)
sheet: 17.2 × 23.1 cm (6 3/4 × 9 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.554
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
retouching across recto in black ink, grey and white paint; on verso, center printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: [reproduction of image] / --United Press International Cablephoto / Too late to save her, spectators gaze at the still-blazing body of the 17-year- / old school girl lying on the street of Nhatrang in South Vietnam.; center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: JAN 29 1965; center right stamped in black ink perpendicular and circled in red pencil: VIETNAM; by unknown hand, center right in red pencil perpendicular: SELF-IMMOLATION; lower left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / JAN 29 1965