Mongolian WACS

Mongolian WACS

Photograph

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Maker
French, 1908–2004

Mongolian WACS

Mongolia: Recognition at Last?


1959
Gelatin silver print, printed 1961
Image: 6 1/16 × 9 1/4 in. (15.4 × 23.5 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 1/16 in. (20.3 × 25.5 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0018
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, C: (Mongolia) 7/61 9) MONGOLIAN WACS, trained and equipped by the \ Soviet Union, step smartly in the anniversary parade in \ Ulan Bator of the 1921 People's Revolution when Outer \ Mongolia achieved its "independence". \ Credit: CARTIER-BRESSON © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS

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