Hankow, China
Hankow, China

Currently not on view

Hankow, China,

1938, printed later

Robert Capa, 1913–1954; born Budapest, Hungary; died Thai Binh, Vietnam
1995-8

Information

Title
Hankow, China
Dates

1938, printed later

Maker
Robert Capa
Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.7 x 34.2 cm. (8 15/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
sheet: 28.1 x 35.3 cm. (11 1/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Howard Greenberg

Object Number
1995-8
Place Depicted

Asia, China, Hubei, Hankou

Inscription

In graphite, verso top right corner: 27 [circled]
In graphite, verso top center: 26 [circled and crossed out]
In graphite, verso right center: 2c [underlined]

Marks/Labels/Seals

Printed on label, verso below center: CHINA: Japanese napalm bombs destroyed Hankow and left a woman / crying before the wreckage of her home. It was by such pictures / that Capa tried to depict the pain of a nation fighting for its / life, in 1938

Stamped, verso center: Please Credit: ROBERT CAPA/ "IMAGES OF WAR" Copyright © 1964

Stamped, verso lower left: DISTRIBUTED BY MAGNUM PHOTOS, INC. / 15 W. 47th St. New York 36, N.Y.

Culture
Hungarian
Type
gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
buildings, figures (representations), women, ruins, wars, floods, destruction

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