On November 11, 2012, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, debuts an unprecedented exhibition exploring the experience of war through the eyes of photographers. WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath features nearly 500 objects, including photographs, books, magazines, albums and photographic equipment. The photographs were made by more than 280 photographers, from 28 nations, who have covered conflict on six continents over 165 years, from the Mexican-American War of 1846 through present-day conflicts.

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Dmitri Baltermants, Attack Eastern Front WWII, 1941© Russian Photo Association,
Razumberg Emil Anasovich

3. Alfred Palmer, Women aircraft workers finishing transparent bomber noses for fighter and
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reconnaissance planes at Douglas Aircraft Co. Plant in Long Beach, California, 1942.

4. Flying Military Class, 2010 Damon Winter—The New York Times

5. ​
Peter van Agtmael, Darien, Wisconsin, October 22, 2007© Peter van Agtmael / Magnum
Photos

6. Jonathan C.
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Torgovnik, Valentine
with her daughters
Amelie and Inez,
Rwanda, from the
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series Intended
​
Consequences, 2006.
© Jonathan Torgovnik

7. ​
Micha Bar-Am, The return
from Entebbe, Ben-Gurion
Airport, Israel, from the
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series Promised Land, ​
1976. © Micha Bar-Am /
Magnum Photos

8. Zaza Rasmadze holds the body of his brother, Zviadi, following the bombardment of Gori,
Georgia, August 9, 2008.Gleb Garanich—Reuters

9. Joe Rosenthal, Old Glory Goes Up on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, 1945. © AP / Wide World
Photos

10. Congolese women fleeing to Goma, 2008. From the series Rape as Weapon of War in DRC
Walter Astrada

11. American USCG Cutter Spencer destroys Nazi Sub, April 17, 1943 Warrant Photographer
Jess W. January

12. U.S. Machine Gunner Sgt. Carolos "OJ"
Orjuela, age 31, Garmsir District,
Helmand Provice, Afghanistan, From
project: Home Front, 2008. Louie Palu

13. Embarkation of HMAT Ajana, Melbourne, July 8, 1916 Josiah Barnes, Australian War
Memorial

14. Reconnaissance, Resistance
and Sabotage: Partisan Girl,
1942. Arkady Shaikhet/Arkady
Shaikhet Estate, Moscow.

15. Daily Routine: A New Camp Use
for a Gas Mask, 1917-18. U.S.
Army Signal Corps/Collection of
the National World War I
Museum, Kansas City, Missouri.

16. Hold The Phone. Two Marine
wiremen on Iwo Jima race
across an open field, under
heavy enemy fire to establish
field telephone contact with
the front lines, February 19,
1945 Joseph Schwartz

17. Press photographers behind an overturned car take pictures as Palestinians hurl stones at
Israeli troops during clashes at the start of the second intifada on the outskirts of the West
Bank, City of Ramallah, Palestine, October 16, 2000. David Silverman,Getty Images

18. Recruitment and Embarkation: Eduard Korniyenko, Say Ahhh, A doctor examines a group of
conscripts for the Russian Army at a recruiting station in Stavropol in southern Russia, May
17, 2005. Eduard Korniyenko / Reuters.

19. Camp Life Daily Routine: Tim
Hetherington, Untitled, Korengal
Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan,
2008. Tim Hetherington/Magnum.

20. Training: A US Marine drill sergeant delivers a severe reprimand to a recruit, Parris Island,
South Carolina, from the series US Marine Corps boot camp, 1970. Thomas
Hoepker/Magnum.

21. Patrol and troop movement: Delta du Mékong [Mekong Delta]. Henri Huet/Associated Press.

22. The Wait: Muchachos Await Counter Attack by the National Guard, Matagalpa, Nicaragua,
1978. Susan Meiselas/Magnum.

23. The Fight: Liberian Government Troops Push Back Rebels, July 20, 2003. Chris
Hondros/Getty.

24. Rescue: PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, 1944. Horace Bristol/The
Horace and Masako Bristol Trust.

25. Aftermath—Death: The body of an
American paratrooper killed in
action in the jungle near the
Cambodian border is raised up to
an evacuation helicopter,
Vietnam, 1966. Henri
Huet/Associated Press.

26. Aftermath—Grief and battlefield burials and memorials: A grief-stricken American infantry
man whose buddy has been killed in action is comforted by another soldier. In the
background a corpsman methodically fills out casualty tags, Haktong-ni area, Korea,
August 28, 1950. Al Chang/The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

27. Prisoners of War and
Interrogations: The
crewmen of the
battleship USS New
Jersey watch a
Japanese prisoner of
war bathe himself
before he is issued GI
clothing, 1944. Charles
Fenno Jacobs/The
Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston.

28. Iwo Jima: Marine Demolition Team Blasting Out a Cave on Hill 382, Iwo Jima, from the photo-
essay Iwo Jima, 1945. Estate of W. Eugene Smith/Black Star.

29. Photographic Essays: Vigil, Nevada, from the series Final Salute, 2005. Todd Heisler/Rocky
Mountain News.

30. EXECUTIONS: Prospekt Pobedy in Grozny, November 1995, Chechen Republic, Russia,
November 1995. Stanley Greene/NOOR.

31. Leisure Time: Soldier Thrown in Air, Trenton, New Jersey, 1917. Lewis W. Hine/National
Gallery of Art, Washington.

32. Medicine—Subsequent to War: Kinneret, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2002. Gillian Laub.

33. Refugees: Tufaha Baydayn, a Lebanese American, fled Lebanon’s civil war in the 1970s.
Dearborn, Michigan, June 2002. Alexandra Avakian/Contact Press Images.

34. Civilians—Grief: Grief, Kerch, Crimea, 1942. Dmitri Baltermants/Russian Photo Association.

35. Caption Portraits: Dissident General Laurent Nkunda, leader of the CNDP (National Congress
for the Defense of the People), poses at his headquarter in his stronghold of Kichanga,
Masisi hills North Kivu, from the series Congo in Limbo, 2007. Cédric Gerbehaye/Agence VU.

36. War’s End—Retribution: In a Deportee Camp, a Gestapo Informer Is Recognized by a Woman
She Has Denounced, Dessau, Germany, 1945. Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum.

37. War’s End—Homecoming: World War II veterans fill every porthole as the Queen Elizabeth
pulls into a pier in New York Harbor, 1945. Associated Press.

38. Memorials: Photograph of the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud
covered in flowers during a ceremony marking the third anniversary of his death, Kabul,
Afghanistan, from the series Afghanistan: Broken Promise 2001-2007. Moises
Saman/Magnum.

39. Remembrance: Class Photo, 1996. Marcelo Brodsky.

40. Unknown photographer, Japanese, War in Hawaiian Water, Japanese Torpedoes Attack
Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of
W.Michels.

41. Joe Rosenthal, American (1911–2006), Over the Top—American Troops Move onto the Beach
at Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945, AP / Wide World Photos

42. Nhem Ein, Cambodian (born
1959), Untitled (prisoner
#389 of the Khmer Rouge;
man),1975–79, gelatin silver
print (printed 1994), Museum
of Modern Art

43. A Royal Navy sailor on board HMS Alcantara uses a portable sewing machine to repair a
signal flag during a voyage to Sierra Leone, March 1942, Cecil Beaton, English (1904–1980) ©
The Imperial War Museums

44. The Shirt of the Emperor,
Worn during His Execution,
Mexico, 1867, Francois
Aubert, French, 1829–1906 ©
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art. Image source: Art
Resource, NY

45. First Cut, Iraq. July 2004, Mark
A. Grimshaw, American, born
1968 © Mark A. Grimshaw

46. Dead Iraqi soldier on the Highway of Death outside Kuwait City during retreat at end of Gulf
War, February 1991 © Ken Jarecke/Contact Press Images

47. Aftermath—Shellshock, Exhaustion: Shell-
shocked soldier awaiting transportation away
from the front line, Hue, Vietnam, 1968. Don
McCullin/Contact Press Images.

48. Woodward, USNR, American (birth date unknown), Religious services under the blasted
flight deck of the USS Franklin, March 1945

49. Children: Called “Little Tiger” for killing
two “Viet Cong women cadre”—his mothe
and teacher, it was rumored, Vietnam,
1968. Philip Jones Griffiths/Magnum.

50. Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C., May 1986, Joel Sternfeld,American (born
1944) © 1986 Joel Sternfeld, courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York

51. Caption War’s End—Victory and Defeat: A journalist climbs out of the hole where toppled
dictator Saddam Hussein was captured in Ad Dawr. Iraq, December 15, 2003. Yuri
Kozyrev/Noor.

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