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Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Image non disponible pour Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

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Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Image non disponible pour Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
ArtistSerbian, born Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1969
Printer
CultureSerbian
Titles
  • Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
DateMay 18, 2008, printed 2012
Place depictedHelmand Province, Afghanistan
Place depictedHelmand Province, Afghanistan
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsFrame (outer): 20 5/8 × 26 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (52.3 × 67.6 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
Object number2015.106.1
Non exposé

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Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceGiven to MFAH, 2015.
Published References The photographs have been variously published in books and media publications. All were included in: Tucker, Anne, Will Michels, and Natalie Zelt. "War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath" (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2012).

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Image non disponible pour Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Goran Tomasevic
Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
May 18, 2008, printed 2012
Inkjet print
2015.106.4
Image non disponible pour Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Goran Tomasevic
Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
May 18, 2008, printed 2012
Inkjet print
2015.106.3
Image non disponible pour Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Goran Tomasevic
Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
May 18, 2008, printed 2012
Inkjet print
2015.106.2
Image non disponible pour U.S. Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
David Guttenfelder
U.S. Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
July 8, 2009, printed 2012
Inkjet print
2015.130
U.S. Marine Gysgt. Carlos "OJ" Orjuela, age 31, Garmsir District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Louie Palu
U.S. Marine Gysgt. Carlos "OJ" Orjuela, age 31, Garmsir District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
2008
Inkjet print
2010.1392
There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned so furiously that fire fighters even lost two of their fire engines.
Simon Norfolk
There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned so furiously that fire fighters even lost two of their fire engines.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.95
Image non disponible pour A U.S. Marine of the 1st Division carries a GI Joe mascot as a good luck charm in his backpack as his unit pushes further into the western part of Fallujah, Iraq.
Anja Niedringhaus
A U.S. Marine of the 1st Division carries a GI Joe mascot as a good luck charm in his backpack as his unit pushes further into the western part of Fallujah, Iraq.
November 14, 2004, printed 2012
Inkjet print
2015.116
Al-Quds fighters - armed civilians- promise to meet U.S. and British invaders with "bullets, not flowers"
Joel Preston Smith
Al-Quds fighters - armed civilians- promise to meet U.S. and British invaders with "bullets, not flowers"
2006
Inkjet print
2025.135.19
Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Peter van Agtmael
Helmand Province, Afghanistan
August 13, 2009, printed 2012
Inkjet print
2015.122
Refugees from fighting between NATO and the Taliban in Nangarhar province, close to the Pakistan border, now sheltering on wasteground in Kabul.
Simon Norfolk
Refugees from fighting between NATO and the Taliban in Nangarhar province, close to the Pakistan border, now sheltering on wasteground in Kabul.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.35
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. One of the 80 baseball teams which have been formed in the three months that this War Relocation Authority center has been opened for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Most of the playing is done in the wide firebreak between blocks of barracks.
Dorothea Lange
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. One of the 80 baseball teams which have been formed in the three months that this War Relocation Authority center has been opened for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Most of the playing is done in the wide firebreak between blocks of barracks.
July 3, 1942, printed July 2025
Inkjet print
2025.727
Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
Simon Norfolk
Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.
2010–2011, printed September 2011
Chromogenic print
2016.224.75
Goran Tomasevic