Tim Hetherington
Untitled, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan [Sergeant Stichter lifts weights]

Untitled, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan [Sergeant Stichter lifts weights]

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Untitled, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan [Sergeant Stichter lifts weights]
Untitled, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan [Sergeant Stichter lifts weights]
ArtistBritish, 1970–2011
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Untitled, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan [Sergeant Stichter lifts weights]
Date2008
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage (At open): 26 7/16 × 39 3/4 in. (67.1 × 101 cm)
Credit LineGift of Charles Dee Mitchell
Object number2019.350
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Object Type
DescriptionFor ten months, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger embedded with American troops in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan to film the documentary Restrepo. Life at the remote outpost—one of the most dangerous postings in the world—alternated between extreme danger and great boredom. Hetherington’s image of Sergeant Tanner Stichter lifting weights suggests the vulnerability, intimacy, and isolation of the soldiers’ daily lives. “Their name for us was ‘Infidel’,” wrote Junger in the foreword to Hetherington’s book of that title, “. . . and after a while the men began to tattoo the word in huge letters across their chests.”
ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by Charles Dee Mitchell, Dallas, January 6, 2011; given to MFAH, 2019.

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