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75 WERNER BISCHOF
SEBASTIÃO (1916–1954)
SALGADO (* 1944)
Koje Do Island camp,
Brasil, 1983 South Korea 1952
Gelatin silver print, printed Vintage silver print
in the 1990s 21,2 × 25,6 cm (8.3 × 10.1 in)
17,4 × 26,8 cm (6.9 × 10.6 in) Photographer’s agency stamp and several
Photographer’s blindstamp in handwritten annotations on the reverse
the image lower left, signed LITERATURE
and annotatd by the photo-
grapher in pencil on the reverse Marco Bischof (ed.), Werner Bischof. Bilder,
Zurich 2006, p. 291 (variant cropping).
LITERATURE
Sebastião Salgado, Otras € 1.800 / € 3.000–3.500
Americas, Madrid 1986, s. p.
€ 1.600 / € 3.000–3.500 The picture was taken at Koje Do Island
camp, where North Korean and Chinese
communist troops are interned. Every day
is washday at Koje, the shapeless garments
hang out to dry on the camps barbed wire
fences.

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