General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese Chief of the National Police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong official Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street early in the Tet Offensive, February 1, 1968
Eddie Adams, American, 1933 - 2004
negative February 1, 1968; print 2013
Gelatin silver print
6/15
Image: 12 5/16 × 18 in. (31.2 × 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
2014.10.4
Publisher
Associated Press (AP)
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on reverse, in graphite, lower right: Alyssa Adams; stamped, on reverse, lower left, in black ink, with edition numbers added in graphite: AP[underlined] ASSOCIATED PRESS / Edition # 6[underlined] of 15 [underlined]
Course History
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection , Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
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. 196.
Published References
Vietnam: The Real War: A Photographic History by the Associated Press (Abrams, 2013), ill. p. 196.
Provenance
Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2014.
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