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Place Afghanistan, Kabul, Asia

1. P1874-1876

Reference (shelfmark):
P1874-1876
Title:
Lithographs of Reptiles. Copies of drawings made during Alexander Burnes Mission to Kabul.
Scope & Content:
Lithographic copies of drawings made during Alexander Burnes Mission to Kabul (1837-42). They were formally in the library of Dr Hugh Falconer.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:

3 items

2. P1877-1895

Reference (shelfmark):
P1877-1895
Title:
Lithographs of Fish. Copies of drawings made during Alexander Burnes Mission to Kabul.
Scope & Content:
Lithographic copies of drawings made during Alexander Burnes Mission to Kabul (1837-42). They were formally in the library of Dr Hugh Falconer.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1840
Extent:
19 Items

3. Photo 1253/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(2)
Title:
Jawad, who like many Afghans uses just the one name, out playing with an old tyre in the Mikrorayon district of Kabul. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon
Scope & Content:
View of a boy holding an old tyre, standing in front of two car wrecks. 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, chromogenic print on Fuji...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1253/1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(3)
Title:
‘Radio TV Mountain’ in the centre of Kabul seen from where the Kabul River cuts through the mountains creating the Deh Mazang gorge. In the First Anglo-Afghan War it was the site of a crucial skirmish and hasty retreat by badly outnumbered British cavalry who had blundered into the midst of a massive Afghan army. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon
Scope & Content:
View of a mountain at night, lit up by the lights from the buildings. 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, chromogenic print on Fujicol...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1253/1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(4)
Title:
'Timur Shah’s Mosque.' Photographer(s): Burke, John
Scope & Content:
View of a mosque, with seven people under a tree on the right. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. There is a marking 'Burke 241', left edge of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011 Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / JNO: BURKE LATE / BAKER & BURKE ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1253/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(6)
Title:
'Shamshere Bridge And Musjid, On The Cabul River Near Dehmazang Gorge, North West Corner Of City.' Photographer(s): Burke, John
Scope & Content:
View looking along a river (Kabul River) towards a bridge with a mosque hidden by trees on the right. A man is standing at the banks of the river, and a group is sitting beside a building on the left. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1878-1880. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011 Stamped ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1253/1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(8)
Title:
The future home of The Afghan Cash And Carry Superstore on the road between the foreign embassies and Kabul Airport. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon
Scope & Content:
A view through a shop window with teapots hanging overhead to a building site across the street. 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, c...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1253/1(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(9)
Title:
The former home of Jangalak Industries, a metalworking factory that once had a workforce of 1,800 but was wrecked during the civil war in the 1990s. It is now used as a massive storage yard for scrap metal. This area is all discarded hospital beds and school desks. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon
Scope & Content:
View of a scrap yard with a man and dog standing in the middle of discarded hospital beds and school desks. 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,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1253/1(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(10)
Title:
Wasteland at the back of shops used as stabling for draft horses. In the distance is the Bala Hissar citadel, now home to an Afghan Army base and mooring for one of the American blimps that carry electronic surveillance gear and cameras. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon
Scope & Content:
View of the back of shops where there are eight horses. There is a fortress on a hill in the distance. On the left is a blimp. 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 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

10. 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