This is What Happens to Humanity When It is Liberated Twice Within Three Months

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "This is What Happens to Humanity When It is Liberated Twice Within Three Months." Originally published in Picture Post, October 7, 1950. Story titled "Inchon", about the Korean War. Caption in magazine reads: "When humanity gets given 'the works', in twentieth-century style, it passes beyond tragedy. Its old ones caper round like crazy goats, its young ones put out more crazy flags in a confused desire to please, its crazy infants surrender in advance, and its spokesmen utter their final crazy verdict 'Sank you!' Which, being interpreted, means that humanity, with the best will in the world, can stand no more liberations like this."

Photographer's stamp on verso.