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Label TextThis documentary image was taken for publication in a newspaper or magazine during the Vietnam-American War (1955-1975). The Vietnam War is often referred to as the first “living room war,” as it was widely covered on television and in printed media. At this time cameras were smaller and developed film could be sent via phone lines or satellite, thus hitting news desks faster than was possible in previous conflicts. In this era, photojournalists had an incredible impact on shaping the public opinion of the wa
Published ReferencesAssociated Press ID # 565409481474
DimensionsOverall: 6 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. (16.8 x 21.3 cm)
Accession Number 2025.333
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Walking With The Wounded: There is no quarter given on either side at the Vietnam outpost of Khe Sanh. The wounded, moved by litter from their defensive positions to the hospital bunker or into evacuating helicopters, are the targets for North Vietnamese gunners, making any open exposure a time of danger. Here, a downed soldier, with shell fragments in his back and legs, is carried by his comrades, one wounded about the head, across an open area during a lull in the fighting, March 8, 1968
Image Not Available for Walking With The Wounded: There is no quarter given on either side at the Vietnam outpost of Khe Sanh. The wounded, moved by litter from their defensive positions to the hospital bunker or into evacuating helicopters, are the targets for North Vietnamese gunners, making any open exposure a time of danger. Here, a downed soldier, with shell fragments in his back and legs, is carried by his comrades, one wounded about the head, across an open area during a lull in the fighting, March 8, 1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: American wounded in battle in South Korea are evacuated by jeeps and litter from the front line. They pass a column of troops being moved up to the front. One man is going into battle well shaved as he soaps his face, July 10, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: An American first aid map treats a wounded United States soldier at front line aid station. The wounded are evacuated by litters carried on jeeps to hospitals in the rear, July 10, 1950
1950
Image Not Available for Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Palestinian refugees arriving in a camp in Sidon, July 1982
Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Palestinian refugees arriving in a camp in Sidon, July 1982
1982
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
I don't feel that Richie playing with guns will have a negative effect on his personality. (He already wants to be a policeman). His childhood gun-playing won't make him into a cop-shooter. By playing with guns he learns to socialize with other children. I find the neighbors who are offended by Richie's gun, either the father hunts or their kids are the first to take Richie's gun and go off and play with it., from the "Suburbia" series
Bill Owens
1971, printed 2000
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: Cpl. Francis Dickey, Miami Beach, Florida, shows his injured hand and damaged rifle after treatment in ambulance near the front lines. Cpl. Dickey advancing behind cover of a tank, was hit when sniper fire struck his rifle shattering the trigger housing. Fragments from the trigger lodged in Dickey’s right hand, August 11, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Operation Smack Reaches a Climax for One Man: Medical corpsmen carry a wounded combat man to an aid station on the Korean front after he was wounded in “Operation Smack”—Sunday’s unsuccessful assault on Spud Hill positions held by Chinese Reds. Other medics stand by to give assistance when needed. The attack, watched by high army officers supplied with gay-colored programs, now is under fire in Washington and in London, January 29, 1953
1953
Image Not Available for Israel Strikes into Lebanon: wounded Lebanese soldier and Israeli soldier peacefully exchange cigarettes, February 1972
Israel Strikes into Lebanon: wounded Lebanese soldier and Israeli soldier peacefully exchange cigarettes, February 1972
1972
Image Not Available for Run and Fire Attack: a Vietnamese infantryman jumps from the protection of a rice paddy dike for another short charge during a run and fire assault on Viet Cong Guerrillas entrenched in Riceland’s in an area 15 miles west of Saigon. When field and surrounding brush line was finally taken, Vietnamese had suffered a loss of 12 men dead or wounded, Straw stack fire at center was set by Guerrillas as a distraction, April 4, 1965
Run and Fire Attack: a Vietnamese infantryman jumps from the protection of a rice paddy dike for another short charge during a run and fire assault on Viet Cong Guerrillas entrenched in Riceland’s in an area 15 miles west of Saigon. When field and surrounding brush line was finally taken, Vietnamese had suffered a loss of 12 men dead or wounded, Straw stack fire at center was set by Guerrillas as a distraction, April 4, 1965
1965
Image Not Available for And Queenie Makes Three: Army Specialist Fourth Keith Albert embraces his parents catching his dog, Queenie, in a squeeze play as the former POW was welcomed to his home near Thibodaux, Louisiana Tuesday afternoon. Albert, who had been a prisoner for three years, was greeted by a band and a crowd of 200 after he was released by an Army hospital at San Antonio, Texas, February 27, 1973
And Queenie Makes Three: Army Specialist Fourth Keith Albert embraces his parents catching his dog, Queenie, in a squeeze play as the former POW was welcomed to his home near Thibodaux, Louisiana Tuesday afternoon. Albert, who had been a prisoner for three years, was greeted by a band and a crowd of 200 after he was released by an Army hospital at San Antonio, Texas, February 27, 1973
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Beggar Seated on a Grassy bank, his Wares Displayed in a Box Suspended from a Strap Across his Right Shoulder, from the series "Beggars and Other Low Life"
Jan Georg van Vliet
1632
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Bileam (The Story of Balaam and the Ass). "Und die Eselin sahe den Engel des Herrn im wege stehen und ein blas Schwert in seiner Hand (And he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand)…" (Numbers 22:31 - 23)
Georg Lemberger
ca.1530
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Baudelaire de profile en chapeau (Baudelaire in profile, wearing a hat), as published in "Charles Asselineau Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son oeuvre (Charles Baudelaire, His Life and His Work)", 1869
Édouard Manet
etched in 1862, published in 1869