Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
November 1995, printed 2000
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.1 × 32.8 cm (8 11/16 × 12 15/16 in.) sheet: 27.94 × 35.24 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Leslie Fratkin)
Accession Number
2015.19.4690
Art Historical Context
**Sarajevo, Bosnia and** (November 1995, printed 2000) Leslie Fratkin captures poignant moment in one of modern history's most harrowing conflicts. Taken just weeks before the Dayton Accords ended the Siege of Sarajevo—a brutal 1,425-day encirclement by Bosnian Serb forces that claimed thousands of lives—this gelatin silver print documents the resilience of a city under duress. Fratkin's work, now part of the National Gallery Art's Corcoran (Gift of the artist), invites viewers to reflect on the human cost of war in the heart of Europe during the Yugoslav Wars. The medium, a gelatin silver pr...