Title from caption on object: "Warrior on a Moon Beam”, July 1969

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16.5 × 21.8 cm (6 1/2 × 8 9/16 in.)

sheet: 20.1 × 25.6 cm (7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.21.20

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

by unknown hand, across top in black ink: 3 AL WARRIOR @T[illegible] 6 P; upper right stamped in red ink: STATES-ITEM; vertical along left edge printed in image: (NY10-July 20) WARRIOR ON A MOON BEAM--Lt. George Kaplan of New York / City, a 9th U.S. Division trooper, keeps up with Apollo 11 news on one / hand with a small transistor radio and war business on the other as / he wades waist deep through Mekong Delta in South Vietnam. Kaplan / is based at Dong Tam and his unit operates throughout the northern / Mekong Delta. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon) (pr11520rca)1969; on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label: historicimages.com / nosp1423; center stamped in purple ink: JUL 24 1969

Provenance

(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary

Exhibition History

2019: By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.