Crackdown on American Cigarettes

Crackdown on American Cigarettes

Photograph

René Burri

Maker
Swiss, 1933–2014

Crackdown on American Cigarettes

South Korea - Democracy on Trial


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/4 × 6 3/8 in. (23.5 × 16.2 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0074
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Korea) 10/61 6) CRACKDOWN ON AMERICAN CIGARETTES means arrest and possible \ jail for any caught smuggling them. This boy was seized in a Seoul \ street. In his frenzy to resist arrest he convinced some bystanders \ that he was an epileptic. \ Credit: Rene Burri © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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