Michael Kamber
Militia member resting. Somalia.

Militia member resting. Somalia.
Militia member resting. Somalia.
Militia member resting. Somalia.
ArtistAmerican, born 1963
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Militia member resting. Somalia.
  • from the series Portraits of Survival
Date2006, printed 2013
Place depictedSomalia
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 23 3/4 × 23 1/2 in. (60.3 × 59.7 cm)
 Sheet: 25 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (64.1 × 64.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Anne Wilkes Tucker and various donors for War photographs
Object number2014.87
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceMichael Kamber, New York, 2013; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in ink lower left below the image:: SOMALIA 2006

Signed in ink lower right below the image: Michael Kamber

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