Title from caption on object: “Red Perch”
April 1962
Artist
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 16.5 × 21.9 cm (6 1/2 × 8 5/8 in.)
sheet: 18.1 × 23.1 cm (7 1/8 × 9 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.434
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Anthony Fox; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
on verso, upper center UPI copyright stamp in blue ink; upper right stamped in red ink: CENTRAL PRESS / ASSOCIATION / APR 12 1962 / REFERENCE DEPT.; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 4045; lower center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: BER 132540. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UNIPIX . RED PERCH / WEST BERLIN: PERCHED ON A LAMPPOST ON THE / EAST SIDE OF THE WALL DIVIDING BERLIN, A / COMMUNIST POLICEMAN TAKES PHOTOS AS WEST / BERLIN POLICE ENGINEERS REMOVED DEBRIS OF / THE WALL THAT COLLAPSED INTO THE WEST SIDE. / THE REDS WATCHED THE REMOVAL AND PHOTOGRAPHED / EVERY POLICEMAN AND LICENSE PLATES OF CARS / INVOLVED WITH THE OPERATION. / NX-1-2-3-4 USN / CREDIT LINE (UPI PHOTO) 4/10/62 ET / EDITORS: SEE ALSO BER 1325407