Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
United Press International Photographer
Untitled (South Vietnam, children run along Highway 1)
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3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
United Press International Photographer
Untitled (South Vietnam, children run along Highway 1)
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, a United Press International credit stamp and a teletype description on the reverse, framed, a Kicken Berlin label on the reverse
image: 9¾ by 7½ in. (24.7 by 19.2 cm.)
frame: 15½ by 12¾ in. (39.5 by 32.5 cm.)
Executed in 1972.
Kicken Berlin
Acquired in 2010 by the present owner
Paris, La Maison Rouge, Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht, October 2011 - January 2012
cf. Exh. cat., Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht, October 2011 - January 2012, p. 125
cf. Tom Ang, Photography: The Definitive Visual History, London, 2014, pp. 278-9
The authorship of the present dramatic image, depicting children fleeing their village of Trảng Bàng after a napalm attack by the Republic of Vietnam Air Force, has not yet been definitively attributed. It is similar to The Terror of War, the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph by Nick Ut (Huỳnh Công Út), an Associated Press photographer. It should be noted that several other photojournalists, including Nguyễn Thành Nghệ and Hoàng Văn Doanh, also documented this dramatic event for both the Associated Press and United Press International (UPI). As the present photograph bears a UPI stamp and caption label on the reverse, Hoàng Văn Doanh is the most likely author as he was working as a freelance photojournalist for UPI at the time.
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