Yury Kozyrev
Iraqi boys play in front of a mural depicting the Statue of Liberty (L) and a painting copied from a photograph taken in the US-run Abu Ghraib prison showing a hooded Iraqi prisoner, in the Shiite Muslim suburb of Sadr City, Iraq.

Iraqi boys play in front of a mural depicting the Statue of Liberty (L) and a painting copied from a photograph taken in the US-run Abu Ghraib prison showing a hooded Iraqi prisoner, in the Shiite Muslim suburb of Sadr City, Iraq.

© Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

Iraqi boys play in front of a mural depicting the Statue of Liberty (L) and a painting copied from a photograph taken in the US-run Abu Ghraib prison showing a hooded Iraqi prisoner, in the Shiite Muslim suburb of Sadr City, Iraq.
Iraqi boys play in front of a mural depicting the Statue of Liberty (L) and a painting copied from a photograph taken in the US-run Abu Ghraib prison showing a hooded Iraqi prisoner, in the Shiite Muslim suburb of Sadr City, Iraq.
ArtistRussian, born 1963
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Iraqi boys play in front of a mural depicting the Statue of Liberty (L) and a painting copied from a photograph taken in the US-run Abu Ghraib prison showing a hooded Iraqi prisoner, in the Shiite Muslim suburb of Sadr City, Iraq.
DateMay 28, 2004, printed 2012
Place depictedSadr City, Iraq
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 13 5/16 × 20 in. (33.8 × 50.8 cm)
 Sheet: 17 5/16 × 24 in. (43.9 × 61 cm)
Credit LineGift of Yuri Kozyrev / Noor for Time
Object number2015.132
Not on view

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Department
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Object Type
ProvenanceGiven to MFAH, 2015.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
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