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1. Photo 1246/2(14)

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Photo 1246/2(14)
Title:
[Botanical study: Saccolabium Guttatum]. Photographer(s): Llewelyn, John Dillwyn (1810-1882)
Scope & Content:
View of a plant in a wooden container. Alternative title "Saccolabium Guttatum / Rhynchostylis Retusa - the fox-brush or fox-tail orchid"; plant native to south east Asia including India; Salted paper print from collodion negative; corners trimmed; fading and yellowing from edges. Inscription...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1853
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1253/1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(15)
Title:
On the very northern edge of Kabul. A shipping container is re-purposed as home to men working in a yard casting concrete blast walls. Each section, when sold to foreign embassies or the military, fetches $1000 per piece. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of two shipping containers stacked on each other with a ladder leaning on the side of the container. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1253/1(90)

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Photo 1253/1(90)
Title:
One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technologized army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things is a huge drain on an army’s resources and its greatest vulnerability. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of rows of shipping containers; two people are standing in the middle of the rows. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromoge...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1253/1(92)

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Photo 1253/1(92)
Title:
The seemingly endless number of helicopter pads and hangars at Camp Bastion. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of an airfield surrounded by hangers, containers and tents. A Chinook helicopter is taking off on the right. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1253/1(95)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(95)
Title:
There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned so furiously that fire fighters even lost two of their fire engines. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of vehicles and shipping containers; a reflection in a body of water is in the foreground. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item