Skip to main content
Youths Practice Throwing Contact Bombs in Forest Surrounding Monimbo

Susan Meiselas

Youths Practice Throwing Contact Bombs in Forest Surrounding Monimbo

1978, printed 1991

Scroll

Susan Meiselas

Youths Practice Throwing Contact Bombs in Forest Surrounding Monimbo

1978, printed 1991

Physical Qualities Silver dye-bleach print (Cibachrome), Sheet: 510 x 407 mm. (20 1/16 x 16 in.)
Portfolio/Series from the series, "Nicaragua, June 1978-July 1979"
Credit Line National Endowment for the Arts, and matching funds from the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund
Object Number 1991.84
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, Magnum Photos, Inc., New York, NY.
Jan Howard, BMA, "A Century of American Photography: A Decade of BMA Acquisitions," 22 October 1997 - 11 January 1998.

Kristen Hileman, BMA. "Seeing now: Photography Since 1960," February 20-May 15, 2011.

Inscribed: Verso, lower right, in graphite: "S. Meiselas / Monimbo, Nicaragua 1978"

Artist

Susan Meiselas

American, born 1948

Meet Susan Meiselas

Explore the Collection Further

John Henry Adams Jr.
Brother and Sister in the Forest
1907
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Forest and Sun
1920
Edmond Charles Yon and Cadart & Luce
Forest Scene
c. 1874
Susan Meiselas
Body Being Burned by the Red Cross to Prevent the Spread of Disease, Masaya
1978 negative (printed 1991)
Mathurin Méheut
Loggers in a Forest
c. 1920
Maxime Lalanne and John Crome
In the Forest (Twilight)
1873
Maxime Lalanne, John Crome, and others
In the Forest (Twilight)
1873
Maxime Lalanne and John Crome
In the Forest (Twilight)
1873
Théodore Rousseau
The Oak Forest of the Rock
1861