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Photo 1253/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004547602
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003188880
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100187852621.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1253/1
- Title:
- Portfolio of photographs of Afghanistan by Simon Norfolk, with facsimiles of work by John Burke
- Scope & Content:
- A portfolio containing 104 prints by Simon Norfolk. Forty facsimiles of work are by John Burke, and sixty-four photographs are by Simon Norfolk. The portfolio comes in a cloth-covered solander box.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003188880
040-004547602 - Is part of:
- Photo 1253 : Burke + Norfolk [Photographs of Afghanistan]. Photographers: Simon Norfolk and John Burke
Photo 1253/1 : Portfolio of photographs of Afghanistan by Simon Norfolk, with facsimiles of work by John Burke - Contains:
- Photo 1253/1(1) : 'Gap Between Upper Bala-Hissar And Bala-Burj, Looking Toward Beni-Hissar.' The Bala Hissar is the citadel that straddles…
Photo 1253/1(2) : Jawad, who like many Afghans uses just the one name, out playing with an old tyre in the Mikrorayon district of Kabul.…
Photo 1253/1(3) : ‘Radio TV Mountain’ in the centre of Kabul seen from where the Kabul River cuts through the mountains creating the Deh…
Photo 1253/1(4) : 'Timur Shah’s Mosque.' Photographer(s): Burke, John
Photo 1253/1(5) : Shah-do-Shamshira Mosque was built in the 1920s on the site of one of Kabul’s first mosques, the Mosque of the King with…
Photo 1253/1(6) : 'Shamshere Bridge And Musjid, On The Cabul River Near Dehmazang Gorge, North West Corner Of City.' Photographer(s): Burke,…
Photo 1253/1(7) : Some of the nonsensical property development taking place in Kabul. This district of the city, Karte Char Chateh, is remembered…
Photo 1253/1(8) : The future home of The Afghan Cash And Carry Superstore on the road between the foreign embassies and Kabul Airport.…
Photo 1253/1(9) : The former home of Jangalak Industries, a metalworking factory that once had a workforce of 1,800 but was wrecked during the…
Photo 1253/1(10) : Wasteland at the back of shops used as stabling for draft horses. In the distance is the Bala Hissar citadel, now home to an…
Photo 1253/1(11) : 'Buddhist Temple excavated at Ali Musjid.' Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
Photo 1253/1(12) : ‘The Museum Of The Jihad’ in Herat. In the centre of the tableau of anti-Soviet mujahedeen guerrillas is Ismail Khan,…
Photo 1253/1(13) : The Sham-e-Paris (‘Parisian Evenings’) wedding hall in the Taymani neighbourhood. Common in Pakistan, these huge…
Photo 1253/1(14) : A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications…
Photo 1253/1(15) : On the very northern edge of Kabul. A shipping container is re-purposed as home to men working in a yard casting concrete…
Photo 1253/1(16) : Entrance to the vast City Star Hall complex of wedding halls, on the new bypass out near Kabul Airport. Photographer(s):…
Photo 1253/1(17) : 'Sha Shaid. The Bala Hissar Gate.' Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
Photo 1253/1(18) : A cellphone booster-station built on the wreckage of buildings that once housed a market. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Photo 1253/1(19) : Jaw Aka Faizal Nahman and his daughter Nono from Bamiyan province, now living in an improvised plastic shelter in the ruined…
Photo 1253/1(20) : The swimming pool that crowns Tepe Wazir Akbar Khan, built by the Soviets in the 1970s and restored in recent times at great…
Photo 1253/1(21) : The whole eastern side of Kabul, for miles along both sides of Jalalabad Road is one huge logistics yard capable of supplying…
Photo 1253/1(22) : The districts of Wazir Akbar Khan and Sherpur, home to all the NGOs and contractors, occupy the site of the former British…
Photo 1253/1(23) : 'Cabul. West End Sherpur. Winter.' Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
Photo 1253/1(24) : The peripheries of the city of Kabul, especially to the north and east are endless building sites. Since most of the…
Photo 1253/1(25) : A dumping ground for an abandoned Russian-era bomber that has now been incorporated into the car park of ‘Shamshad TV’, a…
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- 032-003188880[0001]/040-004547602
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1253
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Techniques:
- Chromogenic Colour Print
Photograph
Photographic Print - Start Date:
- 2010
- End Date:
- 2011
- Date Range:
- 2010-2011
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Portfolio box: 558 x 156 x 412 mm
- Publications:
- David Campbell, Paul Lowe and Simon Norfolk, Burke + Norfolk. Photographs from the War in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk (Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, 2011)
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Burke, John, 1843-1900
Norfolk, Simon, b 1963 - Places:
- Afghanistan, Asia