Simon Norfolk
Dresden: Heidefriedhof [Cemetery for ash remains]

Dresden: Heidefriedhof [Cemetery for ash remains]

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Dresden: Heidefriedhof [Cemetery for ash remains]
Dresden: Heidefriedhof [Cemetery for ash remains]
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Dresden: Heidefriedhof [Cemetery for ash remains]
  • from the series For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory
Datec. 1998, printed 1999
MediumGelatin silver print with toning
Dimensionsimage: 5 7/8 × 5 15/16 in. (14.9 × 15.1 cm)
 sheet: 15 7/8 × 12 in. (40.3 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern
Object number2001.214
Not on view

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Department
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Object Type
Provenance[Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon]; purchased by MFAH, 2001.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped on recto lower right: "simon norfolk/0044 771 254 9620"

Marked in pencil on verso lower left: "Simon Norfolk August '99"
Marked in pencil on verso lower right: Dresden Deidefriedhof"

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