Don McCullin
American Marine throwing hand grenade, Tet Offensive, Hue, South Vietnam

American Marine throwing hand grenade, Tet Offensive, Hue, South Vietnam

© Don McCullin

American Marine throwing hand grenade, Tet Offensive, Hue, South Vietnam
American Marine throwing hand grenade, Tet Offensive, Hue, South Vietnam
ArtistBritish, born 1935
CultureBritish
Titles
  • American Marine throwing hand grenade, Tet Offensive, Hue, South Vietnam
Date1968
PlaceHué, Vietnam
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 7/16 × 12 9/16 in. (21.4 × 31.9 cm)
 Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
 Frame (outer): 16 3/8 × 20 3/8 × 1 1/4 in. (41.7 × 51.8 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 2007" in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., and by Marion Mundy
Object number2007.1389
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceMarilyn Bridges, Warwick, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top right in pencil " 136 "
upper center " 3[circled] "
center " 245m/m "[above horizontal line running from side to side with arrows at either end]
" MAGNUM "

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