Zaire, Goma. Rwanda Refugees at a Refugee Camp

Gilles Peress, French, born 1946

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negative 1994; print 1999-2002

Gelatin silver print

Image: 15 3/8 × 22 3/4 in. (39.1 × 57.8 cm)

Sheet: 20 × 23 7/8 in. (50.8 × 60.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund

2009.60

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, on reverse: Gilles Peress

Course History

THEA 10.1, Human Rights and Performance, Laura Edmondson, Spring 2014

THEA 10.1, COLT 34.2, Human Rights and Performance, Laura Edmondson, Fall 2014

SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection , Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015

Provenance

L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2009.

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