Don McCullin
Close up of nine-year-old Biafran boy waiting in a food queue

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

CultureBritish

Titles

Close up of nine-year-old Biafran boy waiting in a food queue

Date1970

PlaceRepublic of Biafra

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 7/16 × 6 1/4 in. (24 × 15.9 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.5 cm)
Mount: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)

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

Object number2007.1429

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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

verso of mount top left corner in ink " BIAFRA[crossed through] Nigeria E[in pencil] "
left center in pencil "73520 ", " 38617[reading vertically] ", several numerical notations in pencil which have been crossed through

verso of mount center reading vertically a printed label " Magnum Photos, Inc © Don McCullin / [bar code] / NIGERIA(Biafra). Portrait of a starving child. ", this is pasted over another stamp
top center reading vertically a printed label outlined in red listing restrictions stipulated by MAGNUM PHOTOS for use of photographs

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