Don McCullin
Albino boy, not only starving and at death's door, but ridiculed by fellow sufferers for skin pigmentation

Albino boy, not only starving and at death's door, but ridiculed by fellow sufferers for skin pigmentation

© Don McCullin

Albino boy, not only starving and at death's door, but ridiculed by fellow sufferers for skin pigmentation
Albino boy, not only starving and at death's door, but ridiculed by fellow sufferers for skin pigmentation
ArtistBritish, born 1935
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Albino boy, not only starving and at death's door, but ridiculed by fellow sufferers for skin pigmentation
Date1968
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 6 3/8 in. (24.1 × 16.2 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.5 cm)
Mount: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 2007" in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., and by Marion Mundy
Object number2007.1388
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceMarilyn Bridges, Warwick, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
Exhibition History“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso of mount top left corner in ink " BIAFRA "
various locations mostly in pencil but once in ink " 32411[circled]", "47%[circled]", " 63022 ", " Copy neg#22 ", " 68551[upside down]"
top right a stamp barely discernable overwritten in pencil with numerous numerical notations mostly scratched through
recto of mount bottom in ink " <-5/5+2 1/4-> ", in pencil " 5/5 "
verso of mount top left a printed label " Magnum Photos, Inc. © 1997 Don McCullin / [bar code] / BIAFRA. Starving albino child. "
center a stamp " Photograph By / Donald McCullin / © MAGNUM PHOTOS, INC. / 15 West 46th Street, N.Y.C. 10036 "
lower left a printed label outlined in red listing MAGNUM PHOTOS requirements for use of photographs

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