Thursday, May 31, 2007

Iran’s Giant Shoe Box of Faded Photographs, Full of the Unexpected

When Shadi Ghadirian was 21, she got a student job printing old photographs at the small photography museum here. She was so drawn by the 19th-century pictures of women with thick black eyebrows wearing head scarves and short skirts over baggy pants that two years later, in 2000, she began incorporating the imagery into her own photography.

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  1. devalued says:

    very impressive way to explain things.

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