Title from caption on object: “Friendship”
March 31, 1967
Horst Faas
Artist, German, 1933 - 2012
Publisher
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: 22.8 × 17.6 cm (9 × 6 15/16 in.)
sheet: 23.2 × 20.2 cm (9 1/8 × 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.575
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in black ink and grey paint; by unknown hand, top right in black ink: 760; crop marks upper left and upper right in black ink and grey paint; on verso, top right stamped in black ink circled in red pencil: VIETNAM: / U. S. / CASUALTIES; lower center stamped twice in purple ink on applied newspaper: APR 2 1967; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [reproduction of image] / Friendship / This face buried in the shoulder of a comrade in / arms, this badly wounded U.S. sergeant is carried / off a battlefield in South Vietnam. Scenes like / this are becoming common in the far-away war / where men learn about friendship in battle. This / action took place at a field where our troops were / pinned down by murderous Viet Cong fire. / --AP Photo; by unknown hand, lower center in red pencil on applied newspaper: Vietnam War Casualties; lower right in graphite: 5 25; bottom left stamped in purple ink: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / APR 3 1967