How captions change

Names, places and accounts of how a photograph was made can pass from one publication to another without verification. These stories examine the sources behind those captions: what is established, where an account came from and what remains unknown.

1. Tereska’s Drawing of Home

   W–005 · September 1948 · Warsaw, Poland

2. The Hooded Man of Abu Ghraib

   W–030 · 4 November 2003 · Abu Ghraib, Iraq

3. Post-Mortem Photographs: Facts and Myths

   W–019 · Second half of the nineteenth century · Europe and United States; most locations unknown

4. A Frozen Body by the Road

   W–015 · Possibly winter 1939-40 · Possibly Finland; exact location unknown

5. Four People in a Park by Parliament

   W–013 · April 1945 · Vienna, Austria

6. Free Borscht to Mark Stalin’s Death

   W–017 · 6 March 1953 · Washington, DC, United States