Afghan Girl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Afghan girl featured in famous photograph on National Geographic magazine entitled "Afghan Girl"
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Place of Birth: Afghanistan
About Afghan Girl
- Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula (Pashto: ???? ????) (pronounced ['?a?bat]) (born c.?1972), also known as Sharbat Bibi, by journalist Steve McCurry.
- It 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.
- The identity of the photo's subject was not initially known, but in early 2002, she was identified as Sharbat Gula.
- She was an Afghan child who was living in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed. 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.
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