Slithering Soldier

Slithering Soldier

Photograph

Dickey Chapelle

Maker
American, 1918–1965

Slithering Soldier

War Without End?


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 3/16 in. (15.9 × 23.4 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0412
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (S. Vietnam) 11/62 24) SLITHERING SOLDIER: barbwire barrier forces South \ Vietnamese officer to slide through muddy swamp water while \ scouting the location of a Vietcong mortar near the village of \ Van Dinh. \ Credit: Dickey Chapelle © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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