Simon Norfolk
Namibia, 1904

Namibia, 1904

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Namibia, 1904
Namibia, 1904
ArtistBritish, 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

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Photography
Object Type
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"

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