The Chai Portfolio

The Chai Portfolio

Portfolio

Edward Burtynsky

Maker
Canadian, b. 1955

The Chai Portfolio

2017
Portfolio with inkjet prints
5/18 (with 5 artist's proofs)
Overall: 20 × 23 × 2 in. (50.8 × 58.4 × 5.1 cm)
Gift of Howard and Carole Tanenbaum in honor of Drs. Bruce Barnes and Joseph Cunningham, 2019
DescriptionPortfolio containing eighteen photographs. The portfolio was created to commemorate the launch of the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa. The featured images depict the following locations: Therensienstadt, Czech Republic; Berlin, Germany; Kuanas, Lithuania; Mauthausen, Austria; and the sites of numerous ghettos and concentration camps in Poland, such as Auschwitz.
Inscriptions [Hebrew symbol for Chai]

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