item details
NameAnti Vietnam war demonstration
ProductionAns Westra; photographer; 1971; Wellington
Classificationwork prints, black-and-white prints, gelatin silver prints, documentary photographs
Materialssilver, photographic gelatin, photographic paper
Materials Summaryblack and white photograph, gelatin silver print
Techniquesblack-and-white photography
DimensionsImage: 193mm (height), 155mm (length)
Registration NumberO.012125/02
Credit linePurchased 1993 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds
Overview
Violent and unsettling imagery from American sources was increasingly incorporated into anti-Vietnam War protest material in New Zealand in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this photograph by Ans Westra, a young man holds a placard featuring the famous 1967 photograph of United States Marine Corporal Michael Wynn, whose helmet reads 'Make War Not Love' - an inversion of the counterculture's slogan. His image was used to promote the 1968 anti-Vietnam War documentary In the Year of the Pig, which screened in New Zealand in 1971.