Kissing the Coffin

Kissing the Coffin

Photograph

Kissing the Coffin

Terror in Algeria


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (15.8 × 24.1 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0191
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Algeria) 3/62 6) KISSING THE COFFIN of a terror victim - probably \ his own grandchild who is being buried beside her mother - \ an old man breaks down in grief. There were the victims of a plastic bomb in the heart of Oran. \ No credit - see Editor's note.
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