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American soldiers near smoking, downed aircraft during WWII action on Orote Peninsula
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
- July or August 1944
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- e8db1e3a-da44-4001-b065-091701afa7a6
View of a group of soldiers gathered in front of the still-smoking remains of a downed aircraft in a field. A soldier at the rear of the group holds a set of swords wrapped in cloth slung over his shoulder.
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