Burke & Norfolk
2011
$63.00
Burke & Norfolk by John Burke and Simon Norfolk. First edition (2011). First impression. Medium format hardback in new condition. Flat signed by Simon Norfolk to title page. No markings. This is a brand new book. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
About Burke & Norfolk
Simon Norfolk’s 2002 book Afghanistan: Chronotopia is now recognised as a classic of photography. It established Norfolk’s reputation as one of the leading photographers in the world. Furthermore, it has been exhibited at more than thirty venues worldwide. So, in 2010 Simon Norfolk returned to Afghanistan. This time he followed in the footsteps of the nineteenth-century Irish photographer John Burke. Burke was a superb, yet virtually unknown, war photographer. His eloquent and beautiful photographs of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) provide an extraordinary record. Using unwieldy wet-plate collodion negatives and huge wooden cameras he shot landscapes and battlefields. But also archaeological sites and street scenes.
Burke also captured portraits of British officers and ethnological group portraits of Afghans. The range is tremendously broad, yet suffused with a delicate humanism. These are also the first-ever pictures made in Afghanistan. With this book, one hundred and thirty years too late, John Burke’s time has come at last. Norfolk’s new work looks at what happens when you add half a trillion US war dollars to an impoverished and broken country such as Afghanistan. Very loosely re-photographic in nature, the work is presented as an artistic collaboration between Burke and Norfolk. It features photographs by Burke never before published as well as Norfolk’s new pictures from Kabul and Helmand.
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