Monday, November 10, 2014

The Afghan Girl



She's a girl, a beautiful girl in that fact. The colors are as vibrant as her beautiful features. The background is an emerald green and her dress is green also to match the background. Her headdress is a  rusty burgundy, that looks like its old and has been not treated will. Opposite from the vibrancy and smoothness of the emerald green dress and background. The rusty, old burgundy headdress acts as a contrast, but a comparison to her distain look in her beautiful green eyes. It also compares to the snarl on her lips. From this photograph you can tell that this Afghani girl's life has been well off but has been stripped from her riches. Riches in the sense of family, home, land, and happiness. Her life was one of good but as times went on, her life became the opposite. She is about 16 to 17 years old, which in this culture is the age wear they are arranged to wed a man of any age (17-80).  The social class that she is from based on her headdress would be the lower class and like they are from the rural area, where its desert. This is important to the photograph because it was to show how women are subjected to very little things. A woman so beautiful here in the U.S get paraded off as models on magazines and what not. But this young lady, in this culture women are hidden away and not to be seen or heard. Her father or brother would have had to been there for the taking of the picture and her head had to be covered. She can't show any emotion because it would have shown her beauty or as if (in her culture) she was lusting over the photographer or any other man. If these rules were not followed she could have been stoned to death.