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Untitled (Ward room of USS Suwannee being used as emergency sick bay)
Untitled (Ward room of USS Suwannee being used as emergency sick bay)
Untitled (Ward room of USS Suwannee being used as emergency sick bay)

Untitled (Ward room of USS Suwannee being used as emergency sick bay)

Artist Edward J. Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879-1973)
Date1944
MediumGelatin silver print on ferrotyped paper
DimensionsImage: 27.4 × 34.5 cm (10 13/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 28.6 × 35.6 cm (11 1/4 × 14 in.)
Mount: 35.5 × 51.1 cm (14 × 20 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Thomas Maloney in memory of Robert Kriendler, Rutgers Class of 1936
Object number75.043.015
Collections
Exhibition History- A Witness to War: Edward Steichen's U.S. Navy Photography, 09/01/2005-01/29/2006, Zimmerli Art Museum, 1937 Gallery - Study Gallery Rotation, 01/2016-09/2016, Zimmerli Art Museum, 1937 Gallery

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Image Not Available for Untitled (Japanese plane "Frances" making a suicide dive on the USS Ommaney Bay)
Untitled (Japanese plane "Frances" making a suicide dive on the USS Ommaney Bay)
Edward J. Steichen
1944
Untitled (Aircraft carrier USS Suwannee pilots receiving flight data before operations)
Untitled (Aircraft carrier USS Suwannee pilots receiving flight data before operations)
Edward J. Steichen
1943
Image Not Available for Untitled (Damage done to USS Suwannee after Japanese suicide attack off Leyte Gulf)
Untitled (Damage done to USS Suwannee after Japanese suicide attack off Leyte Gulf)
Edward J. Steichen
1944
Image Not Available for Untitled (Post battle relaxation on the USS Monterey)
Untitled (Post battle relaxation on the USS Monterey)
Edward J. Steichen
1944
Image Not Available for Untitled (Three explosions)
Untitled (Three explosions)
Edward J. Steichen
1945
Image Not Available for Untitled (man on stretcher being transported)
Untitled (man on stretcher being transported)
Edward J. Steichen
c. 1943
MAN, (man), n.; pl. Men (men) (AS. mann, man, monn, mon) Pre MAN, (man), n.; pl. Men (men) (AS. mann, man, monn, mon) Pejorative term designing the being of both sexes whose main characteristics are a) standing upright on his hind legs, b) an adjustable thumb c) a relatively large brain capacity. For inst., in the expressions: I am a man, you are a man, he (she) is a man, we are men, you are men, they are men, "man" is always used pejoratively. Warning: men are not monsters, however, and an easy test allows to distinguish between them. Simply remember: MONSTERS ARE INOFFENSIVE.
MAN, (man), n.; pl. Men (men) (AS. mann, man, monn, mon) Pre
MAN, (man), n.; pl. Men (men) (AS. mann, man, monn, mon) Pejorative term designing the being of both sexes whose main characteristics are a) standing upright on his hind legs, b) an adjustable thumb c) a relatively large brain capacity. For inst., in the expressions: I am a man, you are a man, he (she) is a man, we are men, you are men, they are men, "man" is always used pejoratively. Warning: men are not monsters, however, and an easy test allows to distinguish between them. Simply remember: MONSTERS ARE INOFFENSIVE.
Daniel Spoerri
1967
Image Not Available for Untitled (foggy war scene)
Untitled (foggy war scene)
Edward J. Steichen
1945
Image Not Available for Untitled (Foggy plane scene)
Untitled (Foggy plane scene)
Edward J. Steichen
1945
Untitled (USS Belleau Wood)
Untitled (USS Belleau Wood)
Edward J. Steichen
1944
Untitled (Lifeboat with survivors from burning USS Lexington, following battle at Coral Sea)
Untitled (Lifeboat with survivors from burning USS Lexington, following battle at Coral Sea)
Edward J. Steichen
May 8, 1942
Untitled (Bombs packed on hanger deck of the USS Bunker Hill)
Untitled (Bombs packed on hanger deck of the USS Bunker Hill)
Edward J. Steichen
1945