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.2005.023059

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: C1841//33…An army sniper. After the children’s battle is over / each day, the real war begins between army and IRA marksmen. / The IRA has promised to supply three dead soldiers for every / dead Catholic; handwritten: C1841//33

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