Title from caption on object: “At Landsberg Concentration Camp”

May 1945

James Pringle

Artist, Irish, 1919 - 1970

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.6 × 17.5 cm (9 5/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 24.8 × 20.6 cm (9 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.368

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper right stamped in red ink: PIC RAN; upper right: APR 27 1984; by unknown hand, upper center in pink pencil: [illegible], Ger; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: AT LANDSBERG CONCENTRATION CAMP– The commandant of the Landsberg concentration / camp in Germany [circled in pink pencil] stands amid the bodies of internees who died while the hell spot was under his ad- / ministration. (This picture was made after United States Seventh Army troops entered the barricade.) – / A.P. wirephoto; center stamped in blue ink on applied newspaper: May 11 1945; by unknown hand, center in black crayon perpendicular: 8:00; lower right printed in black ink on applied label: CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AXIS AND / RUSSIAN CAMPS

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