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Category Archives: Photography
Yemen’s Beauty
The photographer Steve McCurry has published some incredible pictures of Yemen on his blog. It is well worth checking out the pictures, but it is necessary to avoid the captions, which are neoconnish and ill conceived. When they say a picture is worth a thousand words, it can also be in reference to the kinds of words used. As long as the little boy is in the hands of his tribal family and values, he is most unlikely to be any kind of terrorist.
With Baldensperger in Palestine #5
As begun in a previous post, here are several vintage photographs from Philip J. Baldensperger’s The Immovable East, published in 1913, and available for free as a pdf at archive.org
Camel Jumping in Yemen
Yes, that’s camel jumping, not humping, although I suspect more camels get humped by other camels than get jumped over by young men. There is a beautiful montage of photographs by Ed Ou, who recently visited Bayt al-Faqih in the Yemeni Tihama; for details and the full selection of 14 photographs, check out the New York Times LENS blog for May 9.
Picturing Yemen #9
Boys and toys, Husn al-Arus, 1978; Photo by Daniel Martin Varisco
With Baldensperger in Palestine #4
As continued in a previous post, here are several vintage photographs from Philip J. Baldensperger’s The Immovable East, published in 1913, and available for free as a pdf at archive.org
to be continued…
Yemen Scenes
Haraz village
In celebration of the birthday of the Yemeni photographer Raiman al-Hamdani on Tuesday, here are two of his photographs from his FLICKR site.
In the Sanaa Suq
A vendor works on his computer at a market in the Old Sanaa city May 16, 2012
Here is an extraordinary photograph from the Sanaa suq of a merchant, holding a mouse that roars louder for Yemen’s future than the images of the Presidents on the surrounding walls.