Water!, January 1942

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16.5 × 21.2 cm (6 1/2 × 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 18.1 × 22.9 cm (7 1/8 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.615

Artists / Makers

Frank Noel (artist) American, 1905 - 1966

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink inverted; center printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: CAUTION! WATCH RELEASE DATE! [underlined] / 11608 G / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / (FOR USE SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, WITH SAUL PETT'S / STORY ON TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF WIREPHOTO) / PULITZER PRIZE WINNER / THIS PICTURE OF A MAN PLEADING FOR WATER / FROM A LIFEBOAT ADRIFT IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WON / THE PULITZER PRIZE IN PHOTOGRAPHY FOR AP'S FRANK / NOEL IN 1943. NOEL HIMSELF WAS ADRIFT IN A SMALL / BOAT FOLLOWING TORPEDOING OF HIS SHIP WHEN HE / MADE THE PICTURE. IT WAS TRANSMITTED OVER WIREPHOTO / IN 1942 AND ENTITLED "WATER!" NOEL, ONE OF FOUR AP / PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO HAVE WON PULITZER PRIZES, WAS / CAPTURED BY THE COMMUNISTS LATE IN 1950 WHILE ON / ASSIGNMENT IN THE KOREAN WAR AND SPENT 32 MONTHS / IN NORTH KOREAN PRISON CAMPS. / PJM 12-24-54 857AES FLS; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: Pulitzer Prize; lower right stamped in purple ink inverted: JAN 11 1955;

Provenance

(sale, Henry Yee, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary