Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2022.213
People
Wilfred Burchett, Australian (Melbourne, Australia 1911 - 1983 Sofia, Bulgaria)
Title
North Vietnam President Interviewed: President Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam who will be 74 on May 19th is shown during interview in Hanoi with Wilfred S. Burchett, a Communist-oriented Australian-born newspaperman who works now in Moscow. Ho said it would be sheer stupidity for the United States and South Vietnam to carry the war against his Communist Viet Cong forces into the north. Burchett made these pictures of Ho during the interview which took place in mid-April and was made available after Burchett’s return to Moscow
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1964
Culture
Australian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/374247

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Diptych of vintage Associated Press wirephotos
Dimensions
18.1 × 23.8 cm (7 1/8 × 9 3/8 in.)
image: 16.2 × 21.9 cm (6 3/8 × 8 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Doug and Joan Hansen, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2022.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Doug and Joan Hansen
Accession Year
2022
Object Number
2022.213
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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