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.2005.004371

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 7347//24; typed label: [German inscription]; stamped: [copyright] / HENNING CHRISTOPH / Kortumstr. 61 / 4300 Essen 1 – Germany / (0201) 79 80 89 / Volksbank Essen 395 070 / Postcheckkonto Essen 1066 29-438; typed label: 7347//24 / eastern Belgium…March 11, 1979… In Moelingen//Mouland, / a Flemish town with a French-speaking majority, a member of / the Belgian parliament named Kuijpers holds up two gas canisters / which were fired at him during a pro-Flemish demonstration. / Kuijpers is a members ov the VU (Flemish Folks Union) and / wears a button proclaiming “I’m Flemish—and I’m proud!”

Tagasauris Keywords: 2 people; Belgium; Close up; Day; Demonstration; Face; Flemish Movement; Glasses; Male; Male; Mid adult; Nationalism; Outdoors; Patriarchy; Person; Retail; Waist up
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BELGIUM / FLEMISH NATIONALIST DEMONSTRATION
Retouching: N