Don McCullin
A Christian Phalangist soldier leads an old Armenian woman from her home in Quarantina

A Christian Phalangist soldier leads an old Armenian woman from her home in Quarantina

© Don McCullin

A Christian Phalangist soldier leads an old Armenian woman from her home in Quarantina
A Christian Phalangist soldier leads an old Armenian woman from her home in Quarantina
ArtistBritish, born 1935
CultureBritish
Titles
  • A Christian Phalangist soldier leads an old Armenian woman from her home in Quarantina
Date1976
PlaceEast Beirut, Lebanon
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 3/8 × 9 7/16 in. (16.2 × 24 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.2 × 25.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 2007" in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., and by Marion Mundy
Object number2007.1331
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceMarilyn Bridges, Warwick, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top left corner in purple " Liban ' 76 "
top right corner in red MO12.1.A "
verso bottom center a stamp "TIRAGE ARCHIVES / MAGNUM PHOTOS / ÉPREUVE A RENDRE "
center typed " D111/761: CIVIL WAR IN BEIRUT-1976 Winter 1976 / CT-22 A Christian Phalangist leads an old Armenian woman away from her home in Quarantina. The neighborhood, basically Muslim, was being systematically destroyed- including her home with all her possessions. But is helped along because she is Armenian. / © Donald McCullin/Magnum Distribution "
top left corner a circular red sticker

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