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A woman has just died of Cholera: Her family, dazed and heartbroken, gather together to share their loss

A woman has just died of Cholera: Her family, dazed and heartbroken, gather together to share their loss

© Don McCullin

A woman has just died of Cholera: Her family, dazed and heartbroken, gather together to share their loss
A woman has just died of Cholera: Her family, dazed and heartbroken, gather together to share their loss
ArtistBritish, born 1935
CultureBritish
Titles
  • A woman has just died of Cholera: Her family, dazed and heartbroken, gather together to share their loss
Date1971
PlaceBangladesh
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 7/8 × 10 1/8 in. (17.5 × 25.7 cm)
 Sheet: 11 1/16 × 14 in. (28.1 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 2007" in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., and by Marion Mundy
Object number2007.1440
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 " copy neg # 31 "
top right edge "[?] angia "

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