Lt. Colonel Robert L. Stirm is Greeted by his Family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, as He Returns Home from Vietnam after Five and a Half Years as a Prisoner of War, March 17, 1973
Sal Veder, American, born 1926
negative March 17, 1973; print 2013
Gelatin silver print
1/15
Image: 14 × 18 in. (35.6 × 45.7 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Mrs Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund and the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund
2014.10.1
Publisher
Associated Press (AP)
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Stamped, on reverse, lower left, in black ink, with edition numbers added in graphite: AP[underlined] ASSOCIATED PRESS / Edition # 1[underlined] of 15 [underlined]
Course History
WGST 96, Times of Crisis, Annabelle Martin, Spring 2014
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection , Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
Vietnam: The Real War: A Photographic History from the Associated Press, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, October 24-November 30, 2013.
Publication History
Pete Hamil, Vietnam: The Real War: A Photographic History by the Associated Press, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2013, ill. p. 276.
Published References
Vietnam: The Real War: A Photographic History by the Associated Press (Abrams, 2013), ill. p. 285.
Provenance
Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2014.
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