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032-003188880 Subject Abandoned Buildings

1. Photo 1253/1(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(30)
Title:
Unfinished, speculative property development near Kabul Airport. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of the empty building with a group of children playing. There is a boy on a bike 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, di...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1253/1(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(18)
Title:
A cellphone booster-station built on the wreckage of buildings that once housed a market. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of city ruins, a yellow station with multiple antennas is on top of one of 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, chr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1253/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(7)
Title:
Some of the nonsensical property development taking place in Kabul. This district of the city, Karte Char Chateh, is remembered by Kabulis as that part of the bazaar which was burned by the British in 1842 as collective punishment for the killing of the British Envoy. The fires still burned when the British retreated two days later. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon
Scope & Content:
View of a street with a row of buildings during dusk. 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 Fujicolor Crystal Archi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1253/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(20)
Title:
The swimming pool that crowns Tepe Wazir Akbar Khan, built by the Soviets in the 1970s and restored in recent times at great expense by USAID. It is uncertain if it will ever be used. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of an isolated pool with diving boards with a mountain range in the distance. 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 pri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

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