Provenance

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

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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on verso, center left stamped in black ink inverted: FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY / NOT FOR PUBLICATION [underlined]; center right UPI copyright stamp in black ink; lower center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: SGP 1486251 RO / A PHOTOGRAPHER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