Bella Backers
Photograph
Bella Backers
Algeria: Ben Bella Storms on Stage
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 5/8 in. (15.8 × 24.4 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0322
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso C: (Algeria) 7/62 34) BELLA BACKERS: The dissident Algerian leader's \ main support comes from the tough 45,000 man army formerly based in \ Morocco and Tunisia. Wearing Soviet-made helmets, they here listen \ to Ben Bella's call for unity, in a speech in Oran. \ credit: MARC RIBOUD © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
