Wazir akbar khan biography of nancy

  • The piece looks at Nancy's last project, the uploading of thousands of historical photographs to the site of the Afghanistan Centre at the Kabul University.
  • The districts of Wazir Akbar Khan and Sherpur, home to all the NGOs and contractors, occupy the site of the former British fortress from the Second Anglo-Afghan.
  • Nancy H. Dupree, and to Jonathan Lee, both of whom have supported my project from Kabul.

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    Artist Simon Norfolk(British, born Nigeria, 1963)British, born Nigeria, 1963

    CultureBritish

    Titles

    • The swimming pool that crowns Tepe Wazir Akbar Khan, built bygd the Soviets in the 1970s and restored in recent times at great expense bygd USAID. It is uncertain if it will ever be used.
    • from the portfolio Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan

    Date2010–2011, printed September 2011

    Place depictedKabul, Afghanistan

    MediumChromogenic print

    DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (36.8 × 48.9 cm)
    Sheet: 15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)

    Credit LineGift of Morris Weiner

    Object number2016.224.20

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    ProvenanceThe artist; [Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by Morris Weiner, Houston, 2012; given to MFAH, 2016.
    Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

    Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk // Photographs from the war in Afghanistan // bygd John Burke and Simon Norfolk // Printed bygd Simon Norfolk, S

  • wazir akbar khan biography of nancy

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    Artist Simon Norfolk(British, born Nigeria, 1963)British, born Nigeria, 1963

    CultureBritish

    Titles

    • The districts of Wazir Akbar Khan and Sherpur, home to all the NGOs and contractors, occupy the site of the former British fortress from the Second Anglo-Afghan War, ‘the Cantonment’. Glitzy, kitschy ‘poppy-palaces’, flung up in a hectic property boom after the land was illegally re-possessed from squatters, can command rents of $20,000 per week when leased out to Internationals.
    • from the portfolio Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan

    Date2010–2011, printed September 2011

    Place depictedKabul, Afghanistan

    MediumChromogenic print

    DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (36.8 × 48.9 cm)
    Sheet: 15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)

    Credit LineGift of Morris Weiner

    Object number2016.224.22

    Not on view

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    ProvenanceThe artist; [Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by Morris Weiner, Houston, 2012; given to MFAH, 2016.
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    Kabul

    Capital and the largest city of Afghanistan

    For other places with the same name, see Kabul (disambiguation).

    Capital city in Afghanistan

    Kabul[a] is the capital city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province. The city is divided for administration into 22 municipal districts. In 2025 its population is estimated to be 7.17 million.[8] In contemporary times, Kabul has served as Afghanistan's political, cultural and economical center.[9] Rapid urbanisation has made it the country's primate city and the 76th-largest city in the world.[10]

    The modern-day city of Kabul is located high in a narrow valley in the Hindu Kush mountain range, and is bounded by the Kabul River. At an elevation of 1,790 metres (5,873 ft), it is one of the highest capital cities in the world. The center of the city contains its old neighborhoods, including the areas of Khashti