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8 Vintage WWII ART GREEN Tower of Destruction etc.

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WWII PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS BY ART GREEN. These are vintage gelatin silver prints on large tan exhibition mounts, Two have labels on the mount crediting Green, from Acme Newspictures, Inc. (Green was also known as Russell Green.) A terrific 9 ¼" x 7 ¼" gelatin silver print ironically titled "Battle Stations" shows the body of a gunner slumped over his wrecked shipboard station. A 10 ¼" x 13 3/8" print on textured paper shows an operation on a badly burned soldier. There are 2 prints of "Tower of Destruction," Green's photograph of the burning of the SS Paul Hamilton, taken from the USS Menges. One is a 7 3/8" x 9" ferrotyped print, the other a 10 ¼" x 13 ½" print on textured paper that is higher quality. This image was published in TIME magazine in May 1944. 2 additional large 13 ¼" x 10 ½" prints on textured paper show sailors coming down from a ship to shore. These are all at least [3] with no damage.

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