Don McCullin
The dead body compound of a refugee camp: A man places his nine-year-old son next to the body of a one-year-old boy

The dead body compound of a refugee camp: A man places his nine-year-old son next to the body of a one-year-old boy

© Don McCullin

The dead body compound of a refugee camp: A man places his nine-year-old son next to the body of a one-year-old boy
The dead body compound of a refugee camp: A man places his nine-year-old son next to the body of a one-year-old boy
ArtistBritish, born 1935
CultureBritish
Titles
  • The dead body compound of a refugee camp: A man places his nine-year-old son next to the body of a one-year-old boy
Date1971
PlaceBangladesh
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/8 × 6 7/8 in. (25.7 × 17.5 cm)
 Sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 2007" in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., and by Marion Mundy
Object number2007.1441
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 # 27 "

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