Title from caption on object: “Blood and Rain”
June 1965
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 17.8 × 25.5 cm (7 × 10 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2018.177.561
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
on verso, upper left UPI copyright stamp in black ink inverted; center stamped in black ink: FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY / NOT FOR PUBLICATION [underlined]; lower center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: SGP 1475890 . . . . . . . . PREMIUM SERVICE / BLOOD AND RAIN / DONG XOAI. SOUTH VIET NAM: THE BODIES OF / FALLEN VIET CONG GUERRILLAS -- ONE OF THEM / HEADLESS (RIGHT) -- LIE SPRAWLED AMONG A ROAD / IN THE DONG XOAI AREA. THEY WERE AMONG THE / 2,000 CASUALTIES IN THE BATTLE OF DONG XOAI. / ONE OF THE BLOODIEST FIGHTS OF THE VIET NAM / WAR. / CREDIT (UPI PHOTO) 6/15/65 (JB)