Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: SPIEGEL, Ted
Title: Untitled [A surgeon comforts a woman who has received an illegally induced abortion, Hospital Barros Luco, Santiago, Chile], ca. 1970
Event Date: ca. 1970
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.105114

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: [in black marker] Chile / Medical [underscored]; handwritten: [in graphite] JB-1; handwritten: [in blue marker] Family / Planning; stamped: [in black ink] Credit: [black star] / from BLACK STAR / NEGS NOT IN FILE; handwritten: [in graphite] 0/25/282 / 251; stamped: [in black ink struck through] from / RAPHO GUILLUMETTE PICTURES / 50 EAST 34th STREET / NEW YORK 22, N.Y. / PLaza 5-0712; stamped: [in black ink] TED SPIEGEL / MAGAZINE & ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY / 732 EAST OLIVE ST. SEATTLE, WASH. 98122; stamped and handwritten: [in black ink and graphite] WHEN RE - ORDERING PLEASE REFER TO / Negative file No. R46958 / Roll No. C2 Frame No. 25; typed: [in black ink on paper adhered with tape] CHILE / Hospital Barros Luco in Santiago, Chile - a surgeon comforts / a woman who has received dilation and curretage after her 26th / illegally induced abortion. "Nunca quiero mas ninos" - " I never / want any more children" she says. To combat an epidemic of illegal / abortions, public health officials in Chile have instituted a program / of birth control based on the use of the intra-uterine device.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: CHILE / FAMILY PLANNING
Retouching: N