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Flashpoints, Selected Images of Gilles Peress

Artist Gilles Peress (French, born 1946)

Date1972-1994

Place Made DisplayTanzania, Benaco

MediumPortfolio box for 12 gelatin silver prints

DimensionsImage: 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Richard S. Gold

Object number98.075

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Europe

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Sick, abandoned Rwandan Hutu children in a dispensary, Goma, Zaire, from Flashpoints

Sick, abandoned Rwandan Hutu children in a dispensary, Goma, Zaire, from Flashpoints

Gilles Peress

1994

Posters in front of the U.S. Embassy, Teheran, Iran 1979, from the portfolio Flashpoints

Posters in front of the U.S. Embassy, Teheran, Iran 1979, from the portfolio Flashpoints

Gilles Peress

1979 (negative), 1997 (portfolio)

Evacuation of the Jews, Skanderia, Sarajevo, Bosnia 1993, from the portfolio Flashpoints

Evacuation of the Jews, Skanderia, Sarajevo, Bosnia 1993, from the portfolio Flashpoints

Gilles Peress

1993 (negative), 1997 (portfolio)

Massacre site, Nyarubuye, Rwanda

Massacre site, Nyarubuye, Rwanda

Gilles Peress

1994

On the Loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast, Ireland

On the Loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast, Ireland

Gilles Peress

1981

Bottom of William Street one minute before the British First Parachute Regiment opened fire, killing thirteen civilians—an event known as Bloody Sunday, Derry, Ireland

Bottom of William Street one minute before the British First Parachute Regiment opened fire, killing thirteen civilians—an event known as Bloody Sunday, Derry, Ireland

Gilles Peress

1972

A pro-Khomeini demonstration in a stadium, Tabriz, Iran

A pro-Khomeini demonstration in a stadium, Tabriz, Iran

Gilles Peress

1979

First snow in Ardoyne, a Nationalist neighborhood, Belfast, Ireland

First snow in Ardoyne, a Nationalist neighborhood, Belfast, Ireland

Gilles Peress

1981

The beginning of the Krajina War, a church ransacked by the retreating Serb forces, near Knin, Krajina, Croatia

The beginning of the Krajina War, a church ransacked by the retreating Serb forces, near Knin, Krajina, Croatia

Gilles Peress

1995

Bosnian Muslim refugees from Banja Luca, arriving at a dispatching center, Travnick, Bosnia

Bosnian Muslim refugees from Banja Luca, arriving at a dispatching center, Travnick, Bosnia

Gilles Peress

1993

Women in the courtyard of the main Mosque, Quom, Iran

Women in the courtyard of the main Mosque, Quom, Iran

Gilles Peress

1979

Rwandan Hutu refugees waiting for medical attention, Benaco, Tanzania

Rwandan Hutu refugees waiting for medical attention, Benaco, Tanzania

Gilles Peress

1994