Robert Capa photograph of a Palestinian in Arabic dress at a barbed wire border

The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dr. Mark Reichman. 

Robert Capa photograph of a Palestinian in Arabic dress at a barbed wire border 

overall: Height: 9.620 inches (24.435 cm) | Width: 8.120 inches (20.625 cm) 

Photographic print by Robert Capa of a Palestinian on the other side of the barbed wire border in the middle of the street in Beit Jala, near Bethelem, Israel, taken in August 1949. It was published as part of a promotional piece: ‘‘Israel's First Year. A Report on a new state" 

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Black and white photographic print taken from a medium distance. In the center of the image on a dirt road stands a dark skinned man wearing a white thobe with a dark belt, a black bisht, and a white keffiyah with a black band. He looks dispassionately at a tangled barbed wire fence crossing the road in the foreground. Behind him is a shoulder high rough stone wall and behind this is an orchard of leafy, possibly olive, trees. On the verso are 3 adhered caption label and stamps from his agency and a previous owner, and inscriptions in graphite and black and blue ink. back, top left, pencil : 68 (encircled) back, top center, black ink, handwritten : /21 back, top right, pencil : 354 back, bottom, pencil : 6 (encircled) back, bottom, 10 16 128 deep