Women in burqa
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Shadi Ghadirian uses her photographs to examine the situation of women in Iran.
The Ghajar series looks back to the era of the Qajar dynasty who ruled the country from 1781 to 1925, using clothes from the turn of the last century to dress women, and made them pose against a traditional background but with modern "anomalies" in their hands: a can of Pepsi, a vacuum cleaner, a newspaper. In Like Everyday she photographs various fabric versions of the burqa without a person wearing them, but where the eyes is a kitchen tool: an iron, a teapot, a broom, a cheese grater, etc. About Shadi Ghadirian and Photography in Iran. Check also Hussein Chalayan and Alicia Framis's take on the burqa.
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none of those look like a burqa to me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab is a useful page on the different sorts of islamic dress.
please do try and get your terminology correct.
google search burqa
http://images.google.it/images?q=burqa&ie=utf-8&hl=it&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:it-IT:official&sa=N&tab=wi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqa
lease do try and get your terminology correct before writing unpleasant comments
Looking at both those links, I don't quite see your point. a burqa is an all enveloping garment which covers the eyes. fair enough the 'like everyday' photo could reasonably depict a burqa, but the others show something more like a chador, or niqab. (The Hussein Chalayan article you link to explicitly cites the chador as an influence.
I meant no unpleasantness, but cultural misinformation (and implied the perpetuation of it) should not be taken lightly, especially in light of recent events globally (i.e. danish cartoons &c.)
tim
apologies for the poor spelling and punctuation in that last comment.
I should add that Shadi Ghadirian also cites the Chador as an influence, in the article that you link to. You also state that her photographs examine the situation of women in Iran, whilst the burqa is an afghani garment.
Looking at both those links.