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81. Photo 1253/1(15)

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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

82. 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

83. Photo 1253/1(92)

Reference (shelfmark):
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

84. Photo 1253/1(95)

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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

85. Talbot Photo 1(114)

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Talbot Photo 1(114)
Title:
[D'après Nature.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Study of two men, posed in front of a shed or barn at Lacock Abbey; Nicolaas Henneman is seated, holding a length of plant netting; to the right stands another man (possibly Charles Porter), holding a wicker basket the standing figure holding a basket is possibly Charles Porter. For a print made...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1842
Extent:
1 item

86. Talbot Photo 1(151)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(151)
Title:
[Garden Urn.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Still Life Photography A calyx-krater shaped urn having been lit from one side. Trimmed negative, a print from which can be found at Talbot 14 (4).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
1 item

87. Talbot Photo 1(152)

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Talbot Photo 1(152)
Title:
[Study of a vase, an experimental negative.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscribed: H.T, Dec 2 A collodion on paper negative depicting an ornate vase. The negative is dated from a letter written by Talbot to Nevil Story-Maskelyne (obtained from The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Doc No.07076).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
02 Dec 1854
Extent:
1 item

88. Talbot Photo 1(225)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(225)
Title:
[Aloe Garden, Singleton.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Close-up of an aloe plant with a garden urn in the background. Image size 209 x 169 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 item

89. Talbot Photo 1(280)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(280)
Title:
[Group posed in front of doorway.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, possibly a posed vignette, that consists of two men, two women and a young girl with baskets. The negative has been trimmed making the title impossible to read.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 1840s
Extent:
1 item

90. Talbot Photo 2(69)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(69)
Title:
A Fruit Piece. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Still Life Photography One of two copies (prints 69-70) of this subject, showing two baskets (one of wicker, the other porcelain), containing fruit (apples and a pineapple), set on a tartan tablecloth. Varnished print; chemistry floated on paper 184 x 223 mm. Also published as plate 24...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Before Jun 1845
Extent:
1 item

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