Simon Norfolk
Sword Beach

Sword Beach

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Sword Beach
Sword Beach
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Sword Beach
  • from the series The Normandy Beaches: We Are Making A New World
Date2004, printed 2006
PlaceFrance
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 20 × 25 in. (50.8 × 63.5 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 number2006.557
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 1/10"

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Unfinished, speculative property development near Kabul Airport.
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Internet café, Herat.
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