Wounded Mother

Wounded Mother

Photograph

Horst Faas

Maker
German, 1933–2012

Wounded Mother

1973
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 5/8 × 5 7/8 in. (21.9 × 14.9 cm)
Paper: 9 13/16 × 6 1/4 in. (25 × 15.9 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2024
2025.0010.0036
Inscriptions (NY7) PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Aug.21--WOUNDED MOTHER--A \ Cambodian woman shows a shrapnel wound she suffered Sunday in \ a terrorist bomb explosion at a Phnom Penh theater. Two of \ her children, also wounded in the explosion, lie nearby. \ Three explosions Sunday killed at least five persons and \ wounded 64. (AP Wirephoto by radio from Saigon) (as22320stf- \ hf) 1973
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TLC: HF-VNM-247
Printed in black on red applied label on verso, BC: 75
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