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US Marines march past sign reading ROAD EXPOSED TO ENEMY ARTILLERY, KEEP TO RIGHT on their way towards the front lines during the fight to take Okinawa
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
- April 1945
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- ee56f715-c038-4cd1-9650-64e8780ebad2
View of U.S. Marines walking down a dirt road past a painted sign on the ground that reads, "ROAD EXPOSED TO ENEMY ARTILLERY KEEP TO RIGHT" above an arrow. The sign is propped up with several rocks, and sits in the dirt.
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