Don McCullin
A Christian Phalangist soldier leads an old Armenian woman from her home in Quarantina

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Artist Don McCullin British, born 1935

CultureBritish

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A Christian Phalangist soldier leads an old Armenian woman from her home in Quarantina

Date1976

PlaceEast Beirut, Lebanon

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 6 3/8 × 9 7/16 in. (16.2 × 24 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.2 × 25.2 cm)

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

Object number2007.1331

Not on view

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Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceMarilyn Bridges, Warwick, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso top left corner in purple " Liban ' 76 "
top right corner in red MO12.1.A "

verso bottom center a stamp "TIRAGE ARCHIVES / MAGNUM PHOTOS / ÉPREUVE A RENDRE "
center typed " D111/761: CIVIL WAR IN BEIRUT-1976 Winter 1976 / CT-22 A Christian Phalangist leads an old Armenian woman away from her home in Quarantina. The neighborhood, basically Muslim, was being systematically destroyed- including her home with all her possessions. But is helped along because she is Armenian. / © Donald McCullin/Magnum Distribution "
top left corner a circular red sticker

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