Albino boy, not only starving and at death's door, but ridiculed by fellow sufferers for skin pigmentation

Artist Don McCullin (British, born 1935)British, born 1935

CultureBritish

Titles

Albino boy, not only starving and at death's door, but ridiculed by fellow sufferers for skin pigmentation

Date1968

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 6 3/8 in. (24.1 × 16.2 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.5 cm)
Mount: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 2007" in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., and by Marion Mundy

Object number2007.1388

Non exposé

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceMarilyn Bridges, Warwick, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Exhibition History“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Published References Sunday TImes Magazine, June 1, 1968. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso of mount top left corner in ink " BIAFRA "
various locations mostly in pencil but once in ink " 32411[circled]", "47%[circled]", " 63022 ", " Copy neg#22 ", " 68551[upside down]"
top right a stamp barely discernable overwritten in pencil with numerous numerical notations mostly scratched through
recto of mount bottom in ink " <-5/5+2 1/4-> ", in pencil " 5/5 "

verso of mount top left a printed label " Magnum Photos, Inc. © 1997 Don McCullin / [bar code] / BIAFRA. Starving albino child. "
center a stamp " Photograph By / Donald McCullin / © MAGNUM PHOTOS, INC. / 15 West 46th Street, N.Y.C. 10036 "
lower left a printed label outlined in red listing MAGNUM PHOTOS requirements for use of photographs

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