Afghan Girl, 1984 unique dye-bleach print, printed 2012 signed and credit label, dated and numbered '1/1' in ink affixed (on the verso); signed and numbered '1/1' in ink on accompanying certificate of authenticity image: 33 x 22in. (83.8 x 55.8cm.) ...
In 1984 a journalist called Steve McCurry took an iconic photo of a 12-year-old afghan girl in a refugee camp. That picture of a green-eyed girl became a famous cover of National Geographic. With that photo she became the symbol of the suffer of people in Afghanistan during the Civil Wa...
Sharbat Bibi became famously known as the 'Afghan Girl' when National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry captured her photograph at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp situated on the edge of Peshawar in 1984 and identified her as Sharbat Gula. She gained worldwide recognition when her image was featu...
Steve McCurry is the famous photographer who took one of the most iconic pictures of all time – The Afghan girl. “I knew she had an incredible look, a penetrating gaze. But there was a crowd of people around us, the dust was swirling around, and it was before digital cameras and you...
The “Afghan Girl” made famous after featuring on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985 has been granted refugee status by Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi, according to an Italian government press office statement. The striking portrait of then 12-year-old Sharbat Gula, a Pa...
Her eyes have captivated the world since she appeared on our cover in 1985. Now we can tell her story.
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...