Don McCullin
Biafra

Biafra

© Don McCullin

Biafra
Biafra
ArtistBritish, born 1935
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Biafra
Date1969
PlaceBiafra
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 3/16 × 9 1/4 in. (15.7 × 23.5 cm)
 Sheet: 7 × 10 3/16 in. (17.8 × 25.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 2007" in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., and by Marion Mundy
Object number2007.1340
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceMarilyn Bridges, Warwick, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso upper center in ink and pencil " BIAFRA 1969 "
verso three rectangular stamps along top edge, the same stamps reversed along bottom edge " GAMMA " " 85, Av. Denfert-Rochereau / 75014 PARIS FRANCE " " Tel. 633.31.90 / Telex 201 839 "

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Crippled and maimed soldiers waiting for food handouts at a Catholic mission, Republic of Biafra
Don McCullin
Crippled and maimed soldiers waiting for food handouts at a Catholic mission, Republic of Biafra
1968
Gelatin silver print
2007.1439
Albino boy, not only starving and at death's door, but ridiculed by fellow sufferers for skin pigmentation
Don McCullin
Albino boy, not only starving and at death's door, but ridiculed by fellow sufferers for skin pigmentation
1968
Gelatin silver print
2007.1388
Northern Ireland
Don McCullin
Northern Ireland
1971
Gelatin silver print
93.347
Sundown over Somerset, England
Don McCullin
Sundown over Somerset, England
c. 1988
Gelatin silver print
2007.1453
The first Russian tank which came in Prague in 1945
Don McCullin
The first Russian tank which came in Prague in 1945
March, 1968
Gelatin silver print
2007.1432
Gas in the Bogside, Northern Ireland
Don McCullin
Gas in the Bogside, Northern Ireland
c. 1971
Gelatin silver print
2007.1435
Youths burning homes, Londonderry
Don McCullin
Youths burning homes, Londonderry
1971
Gelatin silver print
2007.1436
The grotesque bodies of two dead Khmer Rouge soldiers lying in makeshift graves, Praveng
Don McCullin
The grotesque bodies of two dead Khmer Rouge soldiers lying in makeshift graves, Praveng
1970
Gelatin silver print
2007.1433
Two Cambodian anti-tank gunners in action, Praveng
Don McCullin
Two Cambodian anti-tank gunners in action, Praveng
1970
Gelatin silver print
2007.1434
Protestor, Cuban missile crisis, Whitehall, London
Don McCullin
Protestor, Cuban missile crisis, Whitehall, London
1963
Gelatin silver print
2007.1450
Exhausted mother and child on the borders of Bangladesh and India
Don McCullin
Exhausted mother and child on the borders of Bangladesh and India
1971
Gelatin silver print
2007.1443
A child suffering from the first stages of Cholera has polluted water poured over his forehead to cool the fever
Don McCullin
A child suffering from the first stages of Cholera has polluted water poured over his forehead to cool the fever
1971
Gelatin silver print
2007.1442