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L'enfant-Femme
Rania Matar
ISBN: 9788862084505
(HB - E)
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In todays world of endless photographing, tagging and posting images on-line, what is a pre-teen girls relationship to the camera? Upending assumptions of contemporary digital image making practices, photographer Rania Matar reframes these young women through her poignant portraits of them, revealing in L'Enfant Femme how young girls between the ages of 8 and 12 interact with the camera and in so doing depicting them in deeply personal and poetic ways. Addressing themes of representation, voyeurism and transgression, Matars images remind us of the fragility of youth while also gesturing towards its unbridled curiosity and joy. Candidly capturing youth at a critical juncture in the early stages of adolescence, Matars images convey the confluence of angst, sexuality and personhood that defines the progression from youth into adulthood.
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