Discarded Vestiges of Colonialism
Photograph
Discarded Vestiges of Colonialism
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16 × 23.9 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0035
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso C: (Guinea) 8/61 6) DISCARDED VESTIGES OF COLONIALISM: French bronzes, heroic \ reminders of the French African Empire, have been ripped off their \ pedestals and thrown on an isolated beach outside Conakry. Busts of \ Guinea's former French governorss met the same fate. \ Credit: MARC RIBOUD © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
