Barricades de la Place Clichy (Paris). Photographer: Langerock, Henri
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Inscription: Captioned in the negative. Genre: War Photography General view of the place de Clichy, with barricades and gun emplacements guarding the street leading off from the square.
A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home from the Anglo-Afghan Wars. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
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View of a watchtower in the evening. 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 Archive / Photograph b...