Title from caption on object: “Soldier's Surgery”
June 1968
American 20th Century
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 19.3 × 23.9 cm (7 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 20.5 × 25.4 cm (8 1/16 × 10 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.580
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Herbert Thomas [?]; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
on verso, upper center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO / D-5834 PLEASE CREDIT / (For use Sunday, July 14, with / Hugh Mulligan's Saigon APN Story / on The Face of Charlie) / SOLDIER'S SURGERY / To the Viet Cong political cadre, / any shortcomings of their men can be / improved through removing "negative / and erroneous thoughts" which lead to / possible defeats. Exorting [sic] the wounded / and sick in hospitals, they overlook / natural causes and attribute illness / and inability to perform as "ideological / unawareness" to be cured "through in- / fluencing morale rather than giving out / medicine."; lower center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: (AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO) / 6853-jb-6/27/68 sai-stf sil1208 / EDITOR'S NOTE: This photo was captured / in War Zones D and C in the / jungles northwest of Saigon; lower right stamped in red ink perpendicular: JUL 16 1968; by unknown hand, lower right in black ink perpendicular: Vietnam: Viet Cong / 1968