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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Main Author: Edwards, Holly (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2015, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 233-251
Further subjects:B iconoclasm
 Queen Soraya
 Zohra Daoud
 Sharbat Gula
 Taliban
 portraiture
 Miss America
 photography

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