Website review: Magnum Photos - Taliban
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RichieDUB rated 7 months ago- A unusual look at the Taliban.
- Anndaluz rated 7 months ago
- A collection of photographs found in Kandahar in December 2001 by Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak. Representation of living things was banned under the rule of the Taliban, but they had to relax the rule to allow people to get passport photographs. It seems people took full advantage of this loophole. These photograhs were left behind at the passport photographers when people fled the invasion.
- A collection of photographs found in Kandahar in December 2001 by Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak. Representation of living things was banned under the rule of the Taliban, but they had to relax the rule to allow people to get passport photographs. It seems people took full advantage of this loophole. These photograhs were left behind at the passport photographers when people fled the invasion.
- yobaba rated 7 months ago
- Organized religion (of which the Taliban is a part) has always used fear and coercion in its attempts to control the masses; whatever `rules' or `laws' men come up with in the name of a god have usually played on people's ignorance and superstitions. This is another example.
- OliviaB rated 7 months ago
- via yda with thanx.
taliban pics
The Taliban forbade all forms of human representation--from "pedestrian crossing"-style street signs, to ancient statues, to photography. But when Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak went to Afghanistan in December 2001, he discovered a cache of studio photographs of male Taliban. They were purportedly taken for identification purposes--a small loophole in the law--but as you can see these are much more convivial and decorative than your standard ID card. See more of these affecting images and watch a fascinating short video piece about Dworzak's finds at the link; it raises all sorts of interesting questions about representation and beliefs.
To me the images bring to mind the universal and timeless lyrics of the great American peace song:
Soldiers who want to be heroes Number practically zero But there are millions Who want to be civilians.
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. - via yda with thanx.
- thedonw rated 7 months ago
- I was right, they did turn out to be fags after all.
- greenchair rated 7 months ago
- Cry me a fucking river.
- bakerspecial rated 7 months ago
- The photo that struck me the most was the one with the Taliban member holding a vase of flowers in one hand and pointing a pistol at the camera with the other. It's almost surrealistic to see these two completely opposite symbols in the hands of this tribal member of the Taliban.
- stephen-rees rated 8 months ago
- I suspect that many members of the Taliban were either coerced or found it safer to join than stick out like a sore thumb.
