The Korea Society marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War with two exhibitions running June 25 through September 10: Steel Helmets: U.S. Korean War Graphics  and Korean War in Color. Both open six decades to the day of the outbreak of conflict.

Steel Helmets: U.S. Korean War Graphics  features twenty-eight framed graphics—eighteen Korean War film posters and ten comics—from the era. With images ranging from the stark to the romantic, the film posters project images of bravery, climatic extremes, love and loss. The comic-book images, sometimes brutally visceral, portray war in all its hell and heroics. Korean War in Color  features thirty images by famed correspondent and veteran John Rich, now in his 90s. Though most Americans recall the War through black-and-white press photos, the Kodachrome images here show the war in vivid, color detail—images of masses on the move, soldiers in the field, individuals in repose.

Accompanying the gallery exhibitions are a selection of films featured on the exhibition posters, a book signing by legendary photographer John Rich, and a lecture by author Brian Locke.

Steel Helmets: U.S. Korean War Graphics and Korean War in Color
June 25-September 10