Mr. U.N. Hero of Free World

Mr. U.N. Hero of Free World

Photograph

Elliott Erwitt

Maker
American, b. France, 1928–2023

Mr. U.N. Hero of Free World

1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 9/16 × 9 3/16 in. (16.7 × 23.4 cm)
Paper: 8 1/16 × 10 in. (20.4 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0532
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, BC: 9-61 1) "MR U.N. HERO OF FREE WORLD: Dag Hammarskjold administered to \ the United Nations and to the cause of peace from his desk on the 38th \ floor of the United Nations headquarters in New York, when he was not \ flying off to distant trouble spots. His view, as shown sybbolically in \ this portrait at sunset,. was to the West. \ Credit: Elliott Erwitt © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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