Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: 1972
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.023068

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Northern Ireland / Civil War / 1972; stamped: Photo and Copyright by / Henning Christoph / 43 Essen / Feuerbachstrasse 5//7 / Germany / Tel.: / Buro: (0 21 41) 73 11 27 / Privat: / Konto: Volksbank Essen 395 070 / Negative Nr.; stamped: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this / print. / Prints must be returned / after use. / Black Star, Library; stamped: NEGS NOT IN FILE; stamped: Photo and copyright by / Henning Christoph / 43 Essen / Dreilindenstr. 88, Tel. (0 21 41) 23 21 23 / Kto. Volksbank Essen 39 5070; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; typed label: C1847//30…Clouds of CS gas hang over the Bogside after a normal / day of “aggro.” Scientists believe that exposure to CS gas over / a long period of time can casue permanent lung damage. A manual / put out by the FBI warns that buildings, rooms, and furniture / exposed to CS gas cannot, in many cases, be decontaminated; handwritten: C1847//30

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: NORTHERN IRELAND / CIVIL WAR
Retouching: N