A Life Revealed
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Thu, 10/25/2012 - 20:40
A Life Revealed
One of the most famous pictures ever taken and the story behind it.
A Life Revealed
Her eyes have captivated the world since she appeared on our cover in 1985. Now we can tell her story. She remembers the moment. The photographer took her picture. She remembers her anger. The man was a stranger. She had never been photographed before. Until they met again 17 years later, she had not been photog
A Life Revealed
Her eyes have captivated the world since she appeared on our cover in 1985. Now we can tell her story. She remembers the moment. The photographer took her picture. She remembers her anger. The man was a stranger. She had never been photographed before. Until they met again 17 years later, she had not been photog
raphed since. The photographer remembers the moment too. The light was soft. The refugee camp in Pakistan was a sea of tents. Inside the school tent he noticed her first. Sensing her shyness, he approached her last. She told him he could take her picture. "I didn't think the photograph of the girl would be different from anything else I shot that day," he recalls of that morning in 1984 spent documenting the ordeal of Afghanistan's refugees. The portrait by Steve McCurry turned out to be one of those images that sears the heart, and in June 1985 it ran on the cover of this magazine. Her eyes are sea green. They are haunted and haunting, and in them you can read the tragedy of a land drained by war. She became known around National Geographic as the "Afghan girl," and for 17 years no one knew her name. Continue story here: http://
Cool read! I've seen the original image but was not aware of the story behind it. Amazing that they could locate her so many years later.
pretty crazy.
nice post!