Shell-shocked soldier awaiting transportation away from the frontline, Hue

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Artist/Maker	McCullin, Don (photographer)
Place of origin	Vietnam (photographed)

Black and white photograph of a shell-shocked soldier in Vietman. He is gripping the top of a gun and staring out towards the photographer.

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Category	Photographs
Object type	Photograph
Title	Shell-shocked soldier awaiting transportation away from the frontline, Hue (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Gelatin-silver print
Brief description	Photograph of a shell shocked soldier in Vietnam by Don McCullin, 1968.
Physical description	Black and white photograph of a shell-shocked soldier in Vietman. He is gripping the top of a gun and staring out towards the photographer.
Dimensions	Height: 20.5cm Width: 17.7cm
Gallery label	(April 2009-April 2010) A well known war photographer, McCullin covered events of global importance for the Sunday Times Magazine throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including the Vietnam War. In 1968 he joined a battalion of American marines as they crossed the Perfumed River to the city of Hue which had been captured by North Vietnamese soldiers. The Americans suffered heavy casualties and the city was destroyed. This image epitomises McCullin's ability to show the human consequences of war
Credit line	Given by the Photographer. Photograph copyright of Don McCullin
Object history	Don McCullin is recognised as one of the greatest war photographers, and throughout the 1960's and 1970's he covered events of global importance for the Sunday Times Magazine including the Vietnam war. His first published story in 1958 concerned his own street gang in North London, and his subsequent images in Britain have looked at the unemployed and the destitute. Abroad, McCullin has covered ecological disasters and the war-torn regions of the world, documenting events normally hidden from view. His work proved so painful and memorable that in 1982 he was forbidden to cover the Falklands war by the British government of the time.
Subjects depicted	Soldier Gun
Place depicted	Vietnam
Bibliographic references	Christoph Grunberg, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era London: Tate, 2005. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ISBN: 1854375954. Nothing in the World but Youth Margate: Turner Contemporary, 2011. ISBN: 9780955236334.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	PH.1280-1980

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Record created	July 24, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O82674/shell-shocked-soldier-awaiting-transportation-photograph-mccullin-don/

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