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Susan Meiselas : Kurdistan, dans l'ombre de l'histoire

Susan Meiselas : Kurdistan, in the shadow of history
From november 8 2002 to january 5 2003
Installation
Photography
Two centuries of Kurdish history are presented through Susan Meiselas' photographic reconstitutions. Post cards, photo-reports, police photographs and other fragments are recomposed in a critical description of the documentary quality of images.

Musée Thomas-Henry

Centre culturel
Rue Vastel
50100 Cherbourg-Octeville - France

Téléphone 02 33 23 39 30
Fax 02 33 23 39 31
Hours :
From may 1 to september 30
Horaire(s) d'ouverturefrom 10 am to 12 pm
and from 2 pm to 6 pm
Sunday morning, Monday morning
From october 1 to april 30
Horaire(s) d'ouverturefrom 2 pm to 6 pm
Monday, Tuesday
Bank holidays, Museum is closed, but exhibtions are opened
Admission :
Admission fee : 2.3 €
Concessions : 1.1 € Under 16, Adult groups, Unemployed
Free : Curators, , Sunday, Art school students, School groups, Journalists, Under 7
Pass : 12.2 €
Reduced-price pass : 6.1 €
Sebah et Joaillier, Noble Kurd, ca. 1895, postal card, taken from Kurdistan, in the shadow of history (1997) bu Susan Meiselas, Courtesy Pierre de Gigord
MORE INFORMATION :
Book : Kurdistan : In the shadow of history, Edition Random House, 1997.
Publication : Interview with Susan Meiselas, in the journal of the crco (Centre régional de Cherbourg-Octeville), p. 42-45.