Pilots Gambling in Ready Room, Selfridge Field, Michigan ("I fired a long burst and saw an explosion behind the pilot's cockpit—He went straight down—I tried to follow—When he crashed three white blobs jumped out of the ground—Heh! This isn't my deal!"), October 1943

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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sheet/mount: 37.4 × 26.6 cm (14 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Gordon Parks Foundation

Accession Number

2019.108.5

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, upper center in black ink: Gordon Parks; on recto, bottom center printed in negative: "I fired a long burst and saw an explosion behind the pilot's cockpit / --He went straight down--I tried to follow--When he crashed three / white blobs jumped out of the ground--Heh! This isn't my deal!"; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 06.004; bottom right: GP02600

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Gordon Parks Foundation