Simon Norfolk
Armenia: Poplars

cropped recto of sheet

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Armenia: Poplars
cropped recto of sheet
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Armenia: Poplars
  • from the series For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory
Date1997, printed 2001
Place depictedDiyarbakir, Turkey
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 15/16 × 8 in. (20.2 × 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 12 in. (40.5 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Joan Morgenstern in memory of Max Herzstein
Object number2008.753
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionIn his series For Most Of It I
Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory
, Simon Norfolk photographed
landscapes of genocide around the world, including Armenia, Auschwitz,
Cambodia, Rwanda, and Vietnam. Here, he features a line of poplars in eastern
Turkey that marks the route by which millions of Armenians were forced to march
to their death by Ottoman armies in 1915. These photographs “portray the
deathly emptiness that one encounters at these sites . . . they are documents
like forensic traces at a crime scene,” says Norfolk.


 




Provenance[Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon]; purchased by Joan Morgenstern, Houston, October 27, 2003; given to MFAH, 2008.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso lower left: "1997: near Diyarbakir, Turkey / 1915: A million Armenians force marched / to death in the Syrian desert"

Marked in pencil on verso lower center; "Editioned for Blue Sky Gallery / 3/15 "
Signed in pencil verso lower right withing a stamp: "Simon Norfolk"
Stamped on verso lower right corner with additional inscriptions in pencil: "Hand printed by the photographer / Date April 2001 / (signature) / Archival (square with check mark) Selenium"
Embossed stamp, recto left: "Simon Norfolk / + 44 020 7254 9620"

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