Glancing Blows, Crossing Boundaries: From Local to Global in the Company of Afghan Women
Photography has complicated Afghan visual culture considerably since its introduction in Kabul at the turn of the twentieth century, destabilizing normative convictions about who can be seen and by whom. In effect, Afghan women became visible, extricated from socially mandated invisibility by means...
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Muqarnas
Year: 2015, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 233-251 |
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iconoclasm
Queen Soraya
Zohra Daoud
Sharbat Gula
Taliban
portraiture
Miss America
photography
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