A Man-made Platform in Cambodian Jungle

A Man-made Platform in Cambodian Jungle

Photograph

Horst Faas

Maker
German, 1933–2012

A Man-made Platform in Cambodian Jungle

1967
Gelatin silver print with applied paint and ink
Image: 5 15/16 × 9 9/16 in. (15.1 × 24.3 cm)
Paper: 8 1/16 × 10 in. (20.5 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2024
2025.0010.0034
Inscriptions Inscribed in black crayon on recto, TC: 8 3/8 "+4" 900 88 [arrow]
Inscribed in blue in on recto, TC: 5 [illegible] +4
Printed above image: (ADVANCE FOR MONDAY AMS, NOV. 20--WITH HORST FAAS-GEORGE MCARTHUR STORY ON CAMBODIAN CAMPSITE) \ (NY20-Nov.18) A MAN-MADE PLATFORM IN CAMBODIAN JUNGLE--A platform built apparently to keep stored \ supplies off the damp jungle earth stands in a suspected Viet Cong campsite near the South \ Vietnamese border in Cambodia. Soldiers of the Cambodian army, who accompanied reporters in their \ search for the campsite, are in the background. (APWirephoto) (b7152OHF) 67
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: HF-VNM-231
Stamped in blue on verso BL: NOV 20 1967
Toyed on applied label on verso, B: A MAN-MADE PLATFORM KEEPS SUPPLIES OFF DAMP JUNGLE EARTH AT CONG CAMPSITE \ Soldiers of the Cambodian Army (background) accompanied reporters to base near Vietnam border
Typed in black on verso, R: VIETNAM-WAR (VC MILITARY CAMP IN CAMBODIA)

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