Title from caption on object: “Body of a Child...”
March 19, 1964
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: 20.7 × 16.5 cm (8 1/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
sheet: 21.5 × 18.4 cm (8 7/16 × 7 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.623
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Catherine Ryan; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in brown ink; on verso, by unknown hand, top right in red ink circled: Viet Nam - South [crossed out] / casualties / civilians; upper center stamped in blue ink: ENGRAVING / 1964 MAR 19 AM 8:49; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite underlined: CHILD; center left stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: 2 MAR 19 1964 S; center left printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Associated Press / BODY OF A CHILD killed in a battle in South Viet Nam / was held today by his father as soldiers of the Vietnamese / army looked down from a tank. The child was killed in / battle near the Cambodian border. The Vietnamese forces / used bombers and armored personnel carrier against / guerrilla forces. (Details, Page 9A.); by unknown hand, center in graphite underlined: Star; lower left stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ARTISTS / 1964 MAR 19 AM 8:43; by unknown hand, lower left in blue ink inverted: 74 7a; lower center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink