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Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: 1981-06-28
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004359
Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, typed label: 7629//33…Diksmuide, BELGIUM//June 28, 1981…Each June Flemish nationalists made a pilgrimage to / Diksmuide in Flanders to commemorate the Flemish soldiers / who fell in World War I. Fiery rhetoric aimed / at the hated Walloons, the Flemings’ adversaries in / language-torn Belgium, has always been as much a part / of the event as the call for peace among nations. / Here members of the “Voorpost,” a militantly right-wing / Flemish youth organization, fall into formation before / the event; stamped: [copyright] / HENNING CHRISTOPH / Kortumstr. 61 / 4300 Essen 1 – Germany / (0201) 79 80 89 / Volksbank Essen 395 070 / Postcheckkonto Essen 1066 29-438; stamped label: [star shape] / Credit: [copyright] 1981 / HENNING CHRISTOPH / from BLACK STAR; typed label: [German inscription]; handwritten: 7629//33
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BELGIUM / FLEMISH NATIONALIST DEMONSTRATION
Retouching: N