Victory arch built by the Northern Alliance at the entrance to a local commander's HQ in Bamiyan. The empty niche housed the smaller of the two Buddhas, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
Simon Norfolk
2002, printed 2007
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View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 61 × 76.3 cm (24 × 30 1/16 in.) sheet: 61.6 × 76.7 cm (24 1/4 × 30 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. J. Patrick Kennedy
Accession Number
2016.196.11