Debt-Ridden Farmers

Debt-Ridden Farmers

Photograph

René Burri

Maker
Swiss, 1933–2014

Debt-Ridden Farmers

South Korea - Democracy on Trial


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/4 × 6 5/16 in. (23.5 × 16.1 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0071
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Korea) 10/61 3) DEBT_RIDDEN FARMERS were among the first to be helped by \ the military regime, many of whose members are sons of peasantry \ and worked rice paddies such as these in their youth. These \ rice planters are working in paddies in the village of Jang Su Won; \ they get about 1000 Hwan or a little less than one U.S. dollar \ per day. \ Credit Rene Burri © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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