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Tall Grass, from the series History
2011 archival pigment print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Donald Standford Rosenfeld Jr.
2017.41.11
An infantry soldier crouches in the grass as the helicopter that delivered him retreats skyward. With this photograph, Levinthal creates a nonspecific yet familiar scene from the Vietnam War. At the time of the conflict, print and television media brought images like this into American living rooms and the collective consciousness of the nation. |