Carl Mydans
Surrender on the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Tokyo

Surrender on  the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Tokyo

© Carl Mydans / Time and Life Pictures / Getty Images

Surrender on the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Tokyo
Surrender on  the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Tokyo
ArtistAmerican, 1907–2004
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Surrender on the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Tokyo
Date1945
PlaceTokyo, Japan
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
Image: 8 7/8 × 13 1/2 in. (22.5 × 34.3 cm)
Frame (outer): 16 3/8 × 20 3/8 × 1 1/4 in. (41.7 × 51.8 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of the artist
Object number2005.1177
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceEstate of Carl Mydans, Mamaroneck, New York; bequeathed to MFAH, 2005.
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
Marked in ink on verso sheet:
"#18586/2/23"(twice, one set of #'s bled), "2nd"

Marked in pencil on verso sheet: "18586 / 2-23 / " (twice, one set of #'s bled)

Marked in ink on verso: "Surrender on The Missouri"

Marked in pencil on verso lower center: "160-J41"
Initialed (?) in pencil on verso center.
Stamped twice in ink on verso center:
"PHOTO BY / CARL MYDANS" (in a rectangle)

Stamped in ink on verso center:
"© ____Time Inc. All Rights Reserved. / No reproduction, commercial display or other / use is permitted without express written / permission of the copyright holder."

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