Flight to Safety

September 6, 1965

Kyoichi Sawada

Associated Names
Kyoichi Sawada

Artist, Japanese, 1936 - 1970

United Press International

Publisher

The image shows five people partially submerged in water. Visible are their heads and shoulders. The group includes three children, one woman, and an infant. The children and woman are positioned close together, with the woman supporting the infant in her arm. The boy on the left has short hair with a longer top and is looking forward. The woman has long, dark, wavy hair, and she holds the infant close, whose head is turned inward. Another child's head is visible next to the woman's shoulder, and the third child in the foreground has wet, shoulder-length dark hair hanging forward. They wear wet clothing. In the surrounding water, there are leaves or plants floating. The background shows rippling water.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.3 × 24.7 cm (7 5/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 25.6 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.627

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, center left stamped in black ink inverted: FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY / NOT FOR PUBLICATION [underlined]; center right UPI copyright stamp in black ink; lower center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: SGP 1486251 RO / A PHOTOGRAPHER LOOKS BACK ON THE SIXTIES / (FOURTH OF 25) / HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD, A VIETNAMESE MOTHER / AND HER FAMILY STRUGGLE ACROSS A RIVER TO ESCAPE / AERIAL BOMBARDMENT WHICH IN 1965 BECAME ONE OF THE / MOST CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES OF THE DECADE. IT WAS SAID / THAT VIETNAM WAS THE FIRST WAR EVER FOUGHT ON TELEVISION, / AND NEWSPHOTOGRAPHERS MADE THE GRIM REALITY OF THE WAR / MORE IMMEDIATE THAN ANY WAR HAD BEEN BEFORE. / CREDIT (UPI PHOTO BY KOICHI [sic] SAWADA) [circled in red pencil] 10/11/69 JLO

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