Links on history, memory, and modernity

[starlady]

Via jhameia:
Images of Afghanistan in the 1950s and 60s at Foreign Policy

Via truepenny:
Jane Korman's Dancing Auschwitz, in which a Holocaust survivor and two generations of his descendants visit Europe and dance to "I Will Survive" at Auschwitz and other key sites in the Nazi campaign of extermination. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Via my network:
A few images of precolonial West African women at Eccentric Yoruba.

And via my own reading:
Video of the town of Musan, just inside the North Korean border with northeastern China, at The New Yorker.

Comments

[senmut]

Thanks for sharing!

[zahrawithaz.livejournal.com]

Thanks much for the Eccentric Yoruba links, which are awesome.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Aren't they though?

[zahrawithaz.livejournal.com]

Yes, and so are the images in her original post, the one about the film. Let's hear it for hairstyle diversity!

And thanks the Afghanistan images, too. Beautiful in a different way and heart-breaking.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really like those too. Really complicates the usual narratives.

thank you

[eccentricyoruba.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

i'd like to say thanks for posting a link to my blog! i was wondering why the stats went up :) it is great that the images of pre-colonial African women i posted are reaching a wider audience. personally i'm longing for the day when i'll be able to make my hair look like theirs did.

Re: thank you

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

You're welcome, and thank you for posting the photos in the first place!