Don McCullin
The grotesque bodies of two dead Khmer Rouge soldiers lying in makeshift graves, Praveng

The grotesque bodies of two dead Khmer Rouge soldiers lying in makeshift graves, Praveng

© Don McCullin

The grotesque bodies of two dead Khmer Rouge soldiers lying in makeshift graves, Praveng
The grotesque bodies of two dead Khmer Rouge soldiers lying in makeshift graves, Praveng
ArtistBritish, born 1935
CultureBritish
Titles
  • The grotesque bodies of two dead Khmer Rouge soldiers lying in makeshift graves, Praveng
Date1970
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 1/8 × 8 1/8 in. (30.8 × 20.6 cm)
 Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 in. (35.6 × 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 number2007.1433
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceMarilyn Bridges, Warwick, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso center in pencil " MAGNUM / copy neg # 8 "
bottom edge pencil notation almost wholly cut off
recto top right corner of sheet a partial notation " IIC4 / NEG NO / 15"x12" / CARD "

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