

Lisa Oppenheim A Handley Page Halifax of No. 4 Group flies over the suburbs of Caen, France, during a major daylight raid to assist the Normandy land battle. 467 aircraft took part in the attack, which was originally intended to have bombed German strongpoints north of, Caen, but the bombing area was eventually shifted nearer the city because of the proximity of Allied troops to the original targets. The resulting bombing devastated the northern suburbs, 1944/2012 2012
- Medium
- Five gelatin silver prints (photograms)
- Dimensions
- Overall (approx.): 24 × 110" (61 × 279.4 cm)
- Credit
- Fund for the Twenty-First Century
- Object number
- 312.2013.a-e
- Copyright
- © 2025 Lisa Oppenheim
- Department
- Photography
- Lisa Oppenheim has 3 works online.
- There are 28,852 photographs online.
Installation views
We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history.
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New Photography 2013: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Lisa Oppenheim, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde, Eileen Quinlan
Sep 14, 2013–Jan 6, 2014
2 other works identified
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New Photography 2013: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Lisa Oppenheim, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde, Eileen Quinlan
Sep 14, 2013–Jan 6, 2014
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New Photography 2013: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Lisa Oppenheim, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde, Eileen Quinlan
Sep 14, 2013–Jan 6, 2014
1 other work identified
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