Armed Vigilance

Armed Vigilance

Photograph

Armed Vigilance

Terror in Algeria


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 11/16 × 5 1/2 in. (17 × 14 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0187
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC:(Algeria) 3/62 2) ARMED VIGILENCE is the daily fare of both \ Moslems and Europeans in Algiers. Death strikes quickly. \ Neither women nor children have been spared the plastic \ bomb attacks which characterize the tactics of the fanatic \ Secret Army Organization. \ No credit - see Editor's note.
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