Simon Norfolk
The Lewis Glacier, Mt. Kenya, 2004 (C)

The Lewis Glacier, Mt. Kenya, 2004 (C)

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

The Lewis Glacier, Mt. Kenya, 2004 (C)
The Lewis Glacier, Mt. Kenya, 2004 (C)
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • The Lewis Glacier, Mt. Kenya, 2004 (C)
  • from the series Stratographs
Date2014
Place depictedKenya
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsSheet: 19 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Credit LineGift of Simon Norfolk and Gallery Luisotti in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her retirement
Object number2015.450
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionCommissioned by the New York Times Magazine, Norfolk traveled to Africa to photograph the Lewis Glacier, which has lost 90 percent of its volume since it was first mapped in 1934. Setting his camera for hour-long exposures at night, Norfolk carried a burning torch along the glacier’s former boundary lines; in this photograph, for instance, he recorded the extent of the glacier in 2004. Norfolk’s decision to draw the lines with a homemade torch fashioned from a garden rake and a gasoline-soaked scrap of carpet also points to the burning of fossil fuels as a chief cause of global warming and melting glaciers.
ProvenanceThe artist; [Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; given to MFAH, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped in black ink and inscribed in pencil, verso: printed under my direct supervision // archival digital c-type print // Simon Norfolk [signed] // [illegible] // edition number 2/3 // 11-3-15
Signed in pencil, verso: Simon Norfolk

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