2021.561: Use Taxi For Protection: with bullet shells littering the ground, South Vietnamese military police crouch behind a bullet-scarred taxi while exchanging fire with Viet Cong infiltrators in Cholon, the Chinese sector of Saigon
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2021.561
- People
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Henri Huet, French (Dalat, Vietnam 1927 - 1971 Savannakhet province, Laos)
- Title
- Use Taxi For Protection: with bullet shells littering the ground, South Vietnamese military police crouch behind a bullet-scarred taxi while exchanging fire with Viet Cong infiltrators in Cholon, the Chinese sector of Saigon
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1968
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/374261
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Vintage Associated Press wirephoto with applied pigment
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 17.5 × 21.6 cm (6 7/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Doug and Joan Hansen, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2021.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Doug and Joan Hansen
- Accession Year
- 2021
- Object Number
- 2021.561
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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