Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: 1979-03-11
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004199

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 7344//21A; typed label: [German inscription]; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: [copyright symbol] 1979/ from BLACK STAR; handwritten: Henning Christoph; stamped: HENNING CHRISTOPH / Kortumstr. 61 / 4300 Essen 1 – Germany / (0201) 798089 / Volksbank Essen 395070 / Postscheckkonto Essen 106629-438; typed label: 7344//21A / eastern Belgium…March 11, 1979… The small town of / Fouron-le-Comte//’s-Gravenvoeren (even the name is divided / into a French and Flemish portion) has often been the / scene of symbolic clashes between Belgium’s two rival cul-/ tural groups, the French-speaking Walloons and the Flemish - / speaking Flemings. A few minutes before this picture was / taken, the well-dressed Flemish patriot on the right had / been hit over the head by a Walloon demonstrator / wielding the Walloon flag now in the possession of / its victim.

Tagasauris Keywords: 5 or more people; Blood; Bloody; Crime, law and justice; Day; Face; Injury; Mafia; Male; Outdoors; Social group; Suits; Western Europe; Worry
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BELGIUM / WALLOON/FRENCH DISPUTE
Retouching: N