Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: AVERY, Paul
Event Date: 1966-01
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.081150

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: CRYING CHILD; handwritten: 3; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; handwritten: Paul Avery; typed label: U.S. Marines recently stormed a a stretch of South China Sea / beach seeking to find and destroy Viet Cong guerrillas inhabiting / Vietnam’s coastal Quang Ngai Province. Outside one hut in / a village, atop a straw mat, sat a babay boy munching rice from / a pottery bowl. As a line of Marines filed by, he eyed the / weirdly-clad foreigners and their weapons, first with curiosity, / then with fear, finally breaking into tears until his amused / mother came up and carried him away to console him.

Tagasauris Keywords: Day; Outdoors; Social issues
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: VIETNAM / PEOPLE: CHILDREN
Retouching: N