Title from caption on object: “Chinese Child Holding an Empty Rice Bowl...”, May 1946

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 18 × 18.1 cm (7 1/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

sheet: 18.6 × 20.5 cm (7 5/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.375

Artists / Makers

George Silk (artist) American, born New Zealand, 1916 - 2004

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

retouching across recto in grey paint; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: met / pix; upper center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: TU AUG 25 1959; upper center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: In response to Russian objections, this photograph of a / Chinese child holding an empty rice bowl was removed / by United States officials from the American exhibition / in Moscow. It was taken by Life magazine photographer / George Silk in Hunan province in 1946 and is part of / Edward Steichen’s “Family of Man” display. —AP Wirephoto; by unknown hand, center in graphite: (China - People of - Children); by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 30409; lower center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary