Faces of Afghanistan
Faces of Afghanistan
November 13, 2014
Falconer, 1953
© Yvonne von Schweinitz
Depicting both people and monuments (including the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001), her photographs capture the historic traditions that Islamic fundamentalists seek to erase from the country's cultural memory. For this reason, the images represent an important contribution to a new and more open understanding.
The exhibition is part of an expansive project, which also includes the display of a collection of war rugs from Munich's Fünf Kontinente Museum, documentary films from Afghan Film archive in Cabul, as well as the so-called Towers of Knowledge from the Bibliotheca Afghanica Foundation in Switzerland.
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Falconer, 1953
© Yvonne von Schweinitz
Women in burkas in front of the ruined columns of Musalla University in Herat
© Yvonne von Schweinitz
Statue of Buddha in Bamiyan, 1953
© Yvonne von Schweinitz
War rug, West Afghanistan, 1980s
© Sammlung Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich
Film-still of Afghanistan's weekly news; re-opening of Kabul University following lengthy renovations; seminar at the Faculty of Medicine 1969
© Afghan Film, Cabul