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Body Being Burned by the Red Cross to Prevent the Spread of Disease, Masaya

Susan Meiselas

Body Being Burned by the Red Cross to Prevent the Spread of Disease, Masaya

1978 negative (printed 1991)

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Body Being Burned by the Red Cross to Prevent the Spread of Disease, Masaya

Susan Meiselas

Body Being Burned by the Red Cross to Prevent the Spread of Disease, Masaya

Susan Meiselas

Body Being Burned by the Red Cross to Prevent the Spread of Disease, Masaya

1978 negative (printed 1991)

Physical Qualities Silver dye-bleach print (Ilfochrome), Sheet: 405 x 508 mm. (40.5 x 50.8 cm.)
Credit Line National Endowment for the Arts, and matching funds from the Friends of Photography
Object Number 1991.83
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, Magnum Photos, Inc., New York, NY.
Meiselas, Susan & Claire Rosenberg (ed.), "Nicaragua June 1978-July 1979", New York: Pantheon Books, 1981, ill. p. 36.

Inscribed: Verso, lower right: "S. Meiselas / Masaya, Nicaragua, 1978"

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Susan Meiselas

American, born 1948

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