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Buchenwald, April 1945
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Object number1994/5.30

Buchenwald, April 1945

Maker (American, 1904-1971)
Date1945
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 9 5/8 × 13 1/2 in. (24.4 × 34.3 cm)
sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineArt Auction Fund
Exhibition History"Photo Affinities," KIA Long Gallery (June 2000 - Jan. 2001)(cf 1990/1.78). "The Twentieth Century in Focus: Photographs from the Permanent Collection," KIA Long Gallery (Jan. 25 - Mar. 25, 2002). "Photo Affinities," Art Center of Battle Creek (Jan. 6 - Mar. 4, 2003). "Highlights of the KIA Permanent Collection, (purchased with Auction funds)," KIA Gallery 5 (Sept. 9 - Oct. 14, 2006). "Light Works: Photographs from the Collection," KIA Long Gallery (Sept. 18 - Dec. 12, 2010). "Lasting Legacy: A Collection for Kalamazoo," Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan (Sep. 6, 2014 - Jan. 4, 2015). "Light Works: A Century of Photography," KIA traveling exhibit. Nassau County Museum of Art, (Nov. 19, 2016 - Mar. 5, 2017). "Framing Moments: Photography from KIA's Permanent Collection," KIA (Feb. 6 - May 16, 2021)Label TextMargaret Bourke-White’s haunting image of men behind barbed wire captures one of many moments on the day Buchenwald, a Nazi death camp, was liberated by the United States army at the end of World War II. These men were prisoners in this German camp. Bourke-White’s photographs provided visual proof of the almost unimaginable atrocities committed against civil populations during the war. In 1945, she was already a highly experienced, distinguished, and respected staff photographer for Life magazine and continued this kind of work around the world for decades. [Framing Moments Exhibition, 2021]