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Supplies and jeeps ready for loading onto a cargo vessel in P. H.
Creator
W. Eugene SmithAmerican Photographer · 1918–1978
All works by this person →W. Eugene Smith's interest in photography grew out of a boyhood passion for airplanes. His mother, herself an amateur photographer, suggested he make his own photographs of planes rather than borrow money from her to buy photos by mail. Thus began a prolific career that spanned five decades; Smith is said to have made at least twenty thousand negatives in one three-year period alone. Reacting to S
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- December 1944–January 1945
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- c8bbdbd5-645f-4d5d-b7a9-c8f43a1e45a8
Aerial view of supplies ready for loading onto a cargo ship at Pearl Harbor. Large piles of wooden pallets surround stacks of cylindrical canisters, possibly buckets, as vehicles parked in rows surround the supplies. A gas tanker sits beside the vehicles as a team of two men carry a hose to fill the gas tanks. A second team can be seen hunched over the open hood of one of the vehicles carrying out repairs on the engine.
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