Simon Norfolk
Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Omaha Beach
Omaha Beach
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Omaha Beach
  • from the series The Normandy Beaches: We Are Making A New World
Date2004, printed 2006
PlaceFrance
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
 Sheet: 28 × 33 in. (71.1 × 83.8 cm)
 Frame (outer): 32 7/8 × 36 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (83.6 × 93.7 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Bari and David Fishel, Brooke and Dan Feather, and Hayley Herzstein in honor of Max Herzstein and a partial gift of the artist and Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica
Object number2006.554
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2006.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in ink on verso lower right within a stamped mark: "Sam Norfolk"
Rectangular stamp on verso lower right with ink additions: "printed under my direct supervision / archival digital c-type print / [signature] / edition number 2/10"

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Some of the nonsensical property development taking place in Kabul. This district of the city, Karte Char Chateh, is remembered by Kabulis as that part of the bazaar which was burned by the British in 1842 as collective punishment for the killing of the British Envoy. The fires still burned when the British retreated two days later.
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An entrepreneur creates a roadside tea stall at the busy Saraj-e Shomali traffic junction. Above him are adverts for banks; a ‘win a free car’ offer from a mobile phone company and the grave of a shahid or martyr.
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An entrepreneur creates a roadside tea stall at the busy Saraj-e Shomali traffic junction. Above him are adverts for banks; a ‘win a free car’ offer from a mobile phone company and the grave of a shahid or martyr.
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A security guard’s booth at the newly restored Ikhtyaruddin citadel, Herat.
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Kabul ‘Pizza Express’ restaurant behind the municipal bus depot.
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The peripheries of the city of Kabul, especially to the north and east are endless building sites. Since most of the documentation concerning land title was lost during the war, much of this speculative and illegal construction is concerned more with establishing undisputable ‘facts on the ground’. Apartments and shops are, almost exclusively, unoccupied.
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