https://coveringphotography.bc.edu/files/original/3/6560/Meiselas-Khedairi72[Box2].jpg f6a1687327e306bb34ea607b5b6fb24b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Covering Photography Main Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Photographer Photographer Meiselas, Susan Author Author of the book upon which the photograph appears Khediari, Betool Book Genre Novel Photograph Title Title of photograph Koreme, Kurdistan region of Iraq 1988 (detail) Group Photographer Group Magnum Notes Notes associated with the item A coming of age novel set in Iraq and Britain, <em>A Sky So Close</em> is the story of an unnamed girl, daughter of an Iraqi father and English mother, as she struggles to reconcile a complicated lineage and form a personal identity. <br />In the jacket matter, title information for photographer Susan Meiselas' image (cropped to a detail of the original for the books cover) is simply stated as '1992'. In fact, the photo, from Meiselas' major body of work, <a href="https://www.magnumphotos.com/shop/collections/books/kurdistan-in-the-shadow-of-history/?sku=MES6"><em>Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History</em></a>, was made in August of 1988 around the village of Koreme, in the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq. The 1992 date may be based on the start of forensic exhumations on gravesites from the genocidal Anfal Campaign (1988) in which Iraqi forces killed tens of thousands of Kurds. Photo Genre Genre of Photograph Documentary / War Designer Designer of book cover Wilson, Gabriele Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Sky So Close Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Anchor Books Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001