What is the name of the 1984 photograph taken by an American photographer that depicts an adolescent girl with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera?
Afghan Girl Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait by journalist Steve McCurry which appeared on the June 1985 cover of "National Geographic". The image is of an adolescent girl with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera. It has been likened to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the "Mona Lisa" and has been called "the First World's Third World "Mona Lisa"". The image became "emblematic" of "refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp" deserving of the compassion of the Western viewer.
Betty Hahn Betty Hahn (born 1940) is an American photographer known for working in alternative photographic processes. She completed both her BFA (1963) and MFA (1966) at Indiana University. Initially, Hahn worked in other two-dimensional art mediums before focusing on photography in graduate school. She is well-recognized due to her experimentation with alternative and experimental photographic methods which incorporate different forms of media. By transcending traditional concepts of photography, Hahn challenges the viewer not only to assess the content of the image, but also to contemplate the photograph itself as an object.