Simon Norfolk
Namibia, 1904

En lire plusFavori

Artist Simon Norfolk(British, born Nigeria, 1963)British, born Nigeria, 1963

CultureBritish

Titles

Namibia, 1904
For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory

Dateprinted 2000

PlaceAfrica

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsImage: 5 15/16 × 6 in. (15.1 × 15.2 cm)
Sheet: 15 13/16 × 11 15/16 in. (40.2 × 30.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of the photographer in honor of Amy Duke and the Holocaust Museum Houston

Object number2002.299

Non exposé

Explore Further

Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceThe artist, Brighton, England; given to MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Marked in pencil on verso lower third: "For Amy Duke and the Holocaust Museum Houston April 2002 / a native soldier fighting with the Germans swore under oath: / "When the engagement was over we discovered eight or nine Jick (?) Hereos ...(?) who had been left behind. Some / of them were blind. They had a supply of ...(?) and ...(?) But the German soldiers burned them alive by setting fire to the hut." When questioned a German officer replied, "So what? They might have inflicted (?) us with some disease."
Printed and pencil verso lower left: "Handprinted by the photographer / Date September 2000"
Marked in pencil verso, lower right: "Nambia 1904 / For Most of It I Have No Words / Genocide, Landscape, Memory"

Signed on verso lower left: "Simon Norfolk

Impressed in the lower center of recto sheet: "simon / norfolk / 0171 254 9620 / 0973 394718"

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.