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Basic Training (Fort Jackson South Carolina, June 1970)

Edmund B. Eckstein1970 - 2007

James A. Michener Art Museum

James A. Michener Art Museum
Doylestown, United States

From photographer Edmund Bruce Ekstein’s Coming of Rage series, completed mostly as self-assignments during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Basic Training captures a young soldier in the process of being prepared for combat during the turbulent years of the Vietnam war.

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  • Title: Basic Training (Fort Jackson South Carolina, June 1970)
  • Creator: Edmund B. Eckstein
  • Creator Lifespan: 1943
  • Creator Nationality: American
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Birth Place: Philadelphia, PA
  • Date: 1970 - 2007
  • Physical Dimensions: w20 x h16 inches
  • Credit Line: James A. Michener Art Museum. Museum purchase funded by the Bette and G. Nelson Pfundt Photography Endowment.
  • Type: Photograph
  • External Link: James A. Michener Art Museum
  • Medium: gelatin silver print on paper
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