332nd Fighter Group in Flight, Selfridge Field, Michigan ("At last we are airborne—We take up our battle positions—White wisps pass us—It's glorious up here."), October 1943

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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sheet/mount: 28.5 × 31.1 cm (11 1/4 × 12 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Gordon Parks Foundation

Accession Number

2019.108.4

Artists / Makers

Gordon Parks (artist) American, 1912 - 2006

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right in black ink: Gordon Parks; on verso, signed by artist, center right perpendicular in black ink: Gordon Parks; on recto, bottom center printed in negative: "At last we are airborne--We take up our battle positions-- / White wisps pass us--It's glorious up here."; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 06.006; bottom right: GP02595

Provenance

Gordon Parks, New York; Gordon Parks Foundation, New York, 2006; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Gordon Parks Foundation