Memories of the Vietnam war
TIME asked those who lived the war to select an image from the period that they found particularly significant. Here are their choices
“Vietnam II” (1973)
A detail of Leon Golub’s “Vietnam II” (1973), at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.Credit...The Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Tate, London; Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times
“Q. And babies? A. And babies.,”
“Q. And babies? A. And babies.,”
1970, offset lithograph on paper. The Coalition reproduced an Army photograph of slaughtered Vietnamese women and children in a ditch at My Lai
Art Workers’ Coalition distributed it fast and free — and never claimed that it was art.
Credit...Irving Petlin, Jon Hendricks, and Frazer Dougherty, via Smithsonian American Art Museum