[Korean mother]
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[Korean mother]

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Photograph

Carl Mydans

Maker
American, 1907–2004

[Korean mother]

ca. 1951
Gelatin silver print
Image: 24.1 x 16.8 cm (9 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.)
Paper: 25.3 x 20.6 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0018.1011
Inscriptions recto (red pencil): 75D[?] / [marks around image] / 73

verso (pencil): [strikethrough red pencil] Carl Mydans / (typed label): KOREA - THE IMPACT OF WAR / February 14 - April 22, 1951 / Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 St. / LIFE MAGAZINE - [underlined] Carl Mydans / Korean mother flees Seoul carrying her / cooking pot and extra rags of clothing / on her head and keeps her nursing child / snug in a hood. / (red pencil): [circled] A / Korea PIX Page / 2 cols x 7" / as a[?]pp[?] / (typed label): CREDIT LINE: Courtesy of Life Magazine / (pencil): [underlined]Must appear under the reproduction / (red pencil): [strikethrough H[?]2] / (stamped and strikethrough in pencil): THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE / REPRODUCED WITHOUT A CREDIT / LINE EITHER ON THE SAME PAGE AS / THE REPRODUCTION OR ON THE / FACING PAGE. / (stamped): The photographer gives permission to reproduce / this photograph ONLY in connection with [illegible] / of this exhibition. / THIS PRINT MUST BE RETURNED TO THE DEPT. OF / PHOTOGRAPHY, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART / (red pencil): Return to VSJ
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