Simon Norfolk
Auschwitz: Staircase in a prison block

Auschwitz: Staircase in a prison block

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Auschwitz: Staircase in a prison block
Auschwitz: Staircase in a prison block
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Auschwitz: Staircase in a prison block
  • from the series For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory
Datec. 1998, printed 1999
Place depictedAuschwitz, Germany
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 5 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (14.9 × 14.9 cm)
 Sheet: 15 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (40.3 × 30.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan and Stanford Alexander
Object number2000.100
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon]; purchased by MFAH, 2000.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The photograph is embossed, recto, lower right: "Simon Norfolk / 0044 171 254 9620"

Inscribed verso in pencil, lower right: "Auschwitz Prison Staircase"
The photograph is signed and dated in pencil, verso, lower left: "Simon Norfolk August '99"

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