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CONSTANTINE
MANOS (* 1934)

›A Soldier’s Funeral‹,
South Carolina 1966
Gelatin silver print, exhibition
print, printed in the 1980s
48,3 × 32,7 cm (19 × 12.9 in)
Annotated in an unidentified
hand in pencil on the reverse
€ 1.800 / € 3.000–3.500

»In the course of an assignment in South Carolina I came
upon a typical African-American church sitting alone in the
middle of the cotton fields. What was different was the fact
that a U.S. Army bus was parked in front of the church. It
immediately occurred to me that this could be the funeral
of a solider killed in Vietnam. It all happened within a half
hour. Look Magazine published six of the pictures, and the
story won an Art Directors’ Award in 1966.«

Constantine Manos

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