Amputated Railway Line
Photograph
Amputated Railway Line
South Korea - Democracy on Trial
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 3/16 × 6 1/4 in. (23.3 × 15.9 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0070
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Korea) 10/61 2) AMPUTATED RAILWAY LINE at 38th parallel border between \ North ans South Korea symbolizes the split personality of a country \ whose name means " Land of the Morning Calm." The whole area along \ the Demarcation Line is still heavily mined as a reminder of the \ Korean War. \ Credit: Rene Burri © MAGNUM Photos
