Official Feast
Photograph
Official Feast
Algeria: Two "Bens" Battle for Power
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/8 × 9 7/16 in. (15.6 × 23.9 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0299
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso C: (Algeria) 7/62 10) OFFICIAL FEAST: A picture that ten years ago the French \ would not have believed possible shows the first official banquet \ of the newly independent Algerian government in Algier's Prefecture. \ Premier Ben Khedda faces the camera, talking to Rabah Bitat, a \ possible candidate for the controversial political bureau. \ Credit: Marc Riboud © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
