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Children carry Japanese prayer lanterns to the Tigris River in Baghdad on the 12th anniversary of the start of the first Gulf
War

Children carry Japanese prayer lanterns to the Tigris River in Baghdad on the 12th anniversary of the start of the first Gulf War
Children carry Japanese prayer lanterns to the Tigris River in Baghdad on the 12th anniversary of the start of the first Gulf War
Children carry Japanese prayer lanterns to the Tigris River in Baghdad on the 12th anniversary of the start of the first Gulf War
ArtistAmerican, born 1961
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Children carry Japanese prayer lanterns to the Tigris River in Baghdad on the 12th anniversary of the start of the first Gulf
    War
  • from the series Night of a Thousand Stars
Date2006
Place depictedBaghdad, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsSheet: 13 × 19 in. (33 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Joy of Giving Something, Inc.
Object number2025.135.2
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceJoy of Giving Something, Inc.; given to MFAH, 2025.
Published References Smith, Joel Preston. Night of a Thousand Stars & Other Portraits of Iraq. Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2006.

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Inkjet print
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Inkjet print
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2006
Inkjet print
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Inkjet print
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