New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.

Over West Wall from the series Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Artist Salvatore (Sal) Lopes (American, b. 1943)

DateNovember 1984

MediumCibachrome print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 15/16 × 20 in. (40.5 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Support: 22 × 25 15/16 in. (55.9 × 65.9 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number87.360

Terms

Washington, DC
Vietnam
Veterans
Washington, DC

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Not on view

DescriptionThis is one photograph from a series of cibachrome print photographs. Taken from above the wall, a crowd stands in front of the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Wall; in the center, a man in uniform stands with his hand over his mouth.

Label TextOver West Wall, November 1984 from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Series, 1982-1987 Cibachrome print Museum purchase 87.360 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was completed in 1982. Over the next five years photographer Sal Lopes recorded the experiences and emotion of families, friends, and comrades as they searched for and located the names of loved ones among the 58,260 fallen listed on the polished granite surface of Maya Lin's extraordinarily beautiful and moving memorial.