Title from caption on object: “Two Victims of the Hungarian Revolt...”
October 25, 1956
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gelatin silver print with applied color
Dimensions
image: 13 × 20.3 cm (5 1/8 × 8 in.) sheet: 13.8 × 22.9 cm (5 7/16 × 9 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.177.426
Art Historical Context
This poignant gelatin silver print, titled *Two Victims of the Hungarian Revolt... and dated October 25 1956, captures harrowing moment from the Hungarian Revolution. That autumn, Hungarians rose up against Soviet-imposed communist rule, sparking a brief but brutal uprising in Budapest. Soviet tanks rolled in to crush the revolt, leaving scenes of devastation and loss like those depicted here. Captured by an unknown 20th-century photographer, the image serves as a stark eyewitness testament to the human cost of Cold War oppression. The photograph's medium—gelatin silver print with applied col...