Algerian women
Los controvertidos retratos de mujeres argelinas de Marc Garanger, que en 1960 era un recluta militar y realizó una enorme cantidad de fotos como estas por encargo del gobierno francés pues se había decidido que todos los argelinos debían llevar un documento de identidad. Argelia era entonces una colonia francesa. Muchas de las mujeres de estas imágenes nunca se habían quitado el velo en público y en ellas se puede adivinar incertidumbre, humillación, confrontación y enfado. La exibición de este trabajo provocó en su momento encendidas críticas. Después Garanger ha trabajado como fotógrafo freelance.
The controversial portraits of Algerian women by Marc Garanger, who in 1960 was a military conscript commissioned to take this photographs by the French government wich decided all Algerians had to carry an identity document (Algeria was then a French colony). For many of the women in these images it was the first and only time they were forced to unveil in public and that's why you can guess uncertainty, humiliation, confrontation and anger in some of those faces. The exhibition of this work caused heavy critics at that time. Garanger has worked later as a freelance photographer.
[vía Purpose Magazine]
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The controversial portraits of Algerian women by Marc Garanger, who in 1960 was a military conscript commissioned to take this photographs by the French government wich decided all Algerians had to carry an identity document (Algeria was then a French colony). For many of the women in these images it was the first and only time they were forced to unveil in public and that's why you can guess uncertainty, humiliation, confrontation and anger in some of those faces. The exhibition of this work caused heavy critics at that time. Garanger has worked later as a freelance photographer.
[vía Purpose Magazine]
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▶Jack Scott·'The Way I Walk'
