Title from caption on object: “The Shipbreakers”

1972

Horst Faas

Artist, German, 1933 - 2012

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.2 × 26.9 cm (7 9/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.4 × 28 cm (8 1/16 × 11 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.583

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, bottom center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: CAUTION! WATCH FOR RELEASE DATE! [underlined] / AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO / F-9957 PLEASE CREDIT / (For use Sunday, June 4, with Leonard / Pratt's Taipei APN story on Taiwan.) / PHOTOGRAPHED BY HORST FAAS / THE SHIPBREAKERS / Taiwan's children are not required to / attend school -- many go to work as soon / as they're old enough to help with a cut- / ting torch in a steelyard. Here, a steel- / cutter stands by with his torch, while a / young boy takes a hand with the job in the / world's largest shipbreaking yard at Kao / Hsiung in southern Taiwan. The yard / breaks up nearly 200 large oceangoing / ships a year. / jb-5/17/72 sil235

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