Title from caption on object: “U.S. Casualties in Vietnam...”

November 1967

Al Chang

Associated Names
Al Chang

Artist, American, 1922 - 2007

This is a photograph of covered objects and figures in helmets. The image presents a scene where figures are standing among a series of objects covered with cloth. The photograph is taken in sepia tones, giving it an aged feeling. The foreground is dominated by large, draped forms, and in the background, there are figures walking past or inspecting the scene. The environment suggests an open space, possibly outdoors, with the presence of vegetation and indistinct forms blending with the background. The image has a heavy, somber tone due to the subjects and the overall composition.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.8 × 27.3 cm (7 × 10 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 18.6 × 28 cm (7 5/16 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.576

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in grey paint; crop marks top left, lower left, and lower right in black ink and graphite; on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite perpendicular: 96; center left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / NOV 25 1967; across center printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: [reproduction of image] / U. S. casualties in Vietnam, when we read or hear about them, / [t]he mere statistic—a thing we feel sorry about but with which we / [fi]nd it hard to identify. Pictures are another matter. Above, / [m]embers of the 173d Airborne Brigade file solemnly past the / bodies of comrades who fell in the vicious battle for Hill 875; by unknown hand, center in red ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: Vietnam: U.S. Casualties; lower center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: NOV 24 1967

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