Title from caption on object: “Twisted Faces”

November 22, 1967

Kyoichi Sawada

Artist, Japanese, 1936 - 1970

United Press International

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.2 × 17.9 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.572

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper center stamped in black ink perpendicular: FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY / NOT FOR PUBLICATION [underlined]; center right UPI copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; lower center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: RSGP1575136. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK BUREAU / TWISTED FACES / DAK TO, SOUTH VIETNAM: Grim paratroopers of the 173rd / Airborne Brigade drag a wounded buddy through thicket of / trees on the slopes of Hill 875 in search of evacuation / forces 11/22. [highlighted in red ink] The four day battle for control of the / strategic peak has cost U.S. troops some of their high- / est casualties of the war. Wounded lay for as long as / 48 hours in some cases, inaccessible to helicopter- / rescue teams who were repeatedly driven off by intense / fire by well-entrenched North Vietnamese troops. / jm / CREDIT (UPI RADIOPHOTO BY KYOICHI SAWADA) SGP52 11/22/67

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