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Photo, Print, Drawing [A photographer's journal and photo album, 2007-2009]

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Title

  • [A photographer's journal and photo album, 2007-2009]

Summary

  • Photojournalist Stephen Dupont's journal consists of handwritten text, notes and photographs of his travels in Thailand (2007) and Afghanistan (2008 and 2009). Initial entries describe his work on a "Bordertown" project in Thailand near the Myanmar border. In April 2008, Dupont and Australian journalist Paul Raffaele accompanied Afghan police, soldiers and civilians on a drug eradication trip. Entries describe a suicide bomb explosion and its aftermath in Khogyami, Nangarhār Province, which occurred during this journey. In 2009, Dupont embedded with the Second Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Delta Company at Forward Operating Base Castle, Khan Neshin, in southern Helmand Province. He describes daily life and conditions, foot patrols, weapons searches, supply runs and the Afghan people. Included is a series of photographs entitled "Weapons Platoon portraits," instant Polaroid images of Marines including medics and officers, along with their handwritten responses to the question "Why am I a Marine?". Other photographs depict the Marine base including the Khan Neshin castle ruins, Dupont's "home and darkroom," container crates, the landscape and barbed wire.

Names

  • Dupont, Stephen, photographer

Created / Published

  • 2007-2009.

Headings

  • -  Dupont, Stephen--Travel--Afghanistan
  • -  Dupont, Stephen--Travel--Thailand
  • -  Afghan War, 2001---Military life--American
  • -  Afghan War, 2001---Military personnel--American
  • -  Suicide bombings--Afghanistan--Nangarhār--2000-2010
  • -  Marines (Military personnel)--Afghanistan--Helmand--2000-2010
  • -  Military facilities--American--Afghanistan--Helmand--2000-2010

Format Headings

  • Albums--2000-2010.
  • Diaries--2000-2010.
  • Dye diffusion transfer prints--2000-2010.
  • Ephemera--2000-2010.
  • Group portraits--2000-2010.
  • Portrait photographs--2000-2010.

Genre

  • Group portraits--2000-2010
  • Albums--2000-2010
  • Diaries--2000-2010
  • Portrait photographs--2000-2010
  • Ephemera--2000-2010
  • Dye diffusion transfer prints--2000-2010

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Stephen Dupont.
  • -  Journal includes 52 instant polaroid photographs, most b&w some color. Ephemera pasted in journal Includes Singha Lager beer labels, Operation Enduring Freedom card with map of Afghanistan and a photomechanical print of Afghan president Hamid Karzai with "Can he survive?" written on it.
  • -  Copyright by Stephen Dupont.
  • -  Purchase; Booklyn Artists Alliance; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:195).
  • -  Exhibited: "War/Photography : Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2012-2013 ; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2013.
  • -  Exhibited: "America 250": Treasures from the Library of Congress" at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, NW Curtain, Treasure Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Vender : Brooklyn Artists Alliance.

Medium

  • journal 1 volume (239 pages) ; 21 x 13 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 14041 (H) [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2010652050

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-99891 (digital file from original)

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Restricted access; Served by appointment only.

Online Format

  • image

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  • Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Stephen Dupont," https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/640_dupo.html
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-99891 (digital file from original)
  • Call Number: LOT 14041 (H) [P&P]
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Chicago citation style:

Dupont, Stephen, photographer. A Photographer's Journal and Photo Album, -2009. Nangarhār Afghanistan Helmand Thailand, 2007. to 2009. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010652050/.

APA citation style:

Dupont, S., photographer. (2007) A Photographer's Journal and Photo Album, -2009. Nangarhār Afghanistan Helmand Thailand, 2007. to 2009. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010652050/.

MLA citation style:

Dupont, Stephen, photographer. A Photographer's Journal and Photo Album, -2009. to 2009. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2010652050/>.