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Subject: RE: [Leica] McCurry's Afghan Girl [OT]
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:25:31 -0500

They are indeed - When I looked at the two images side by side last night it
was on a projection screen, and they looked blue.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Greg J.
Lorenzo
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 12:15 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] McCurry's Afghan Girl [OT]


Hi B.D.,

I'm  a little color blind but aren't those startling blue eyes green?

Regards,

Greg

B. D. Colen wrote:

>I have to say that when I saw the two images I really wondered - and still
>do wonder - if it is the same woman. Sure, the eyes look the same - but the
>nose is a different shape, not broken or smashed looking, just a different
>shape in terms of the tip - and the mouths are different. Could this be a
>gigantic con on the part of the woman and or her family, something that
>McCurry and Nat Geo so desperately want to believe that they've fallen for
>it? Not to be too much of a cynic, but....and as to the eyes - startling
>blue eyes like that would make two very different looking people look
>strikingly similar.
>
>B. D.
>Still Cynical, After All These Years....
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Christopher
>Hoover - Pacbell
>Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:31 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] McCurry's Afghan Girl [OT]
>
>
>A friend was aghast when he saw these more recent images. How can a
>person change so much? Don't worry, I told him, now she can be a
>celebrity and move to LA, where doctors can make her look exactly
>like the original picture taken when she was 12.
>
>Then, realizing she'll never make it beyond the interview circuit and
>become the singer/model/actress she's always dreamed of without further
>modification, she'll be lured into a full plastic rebirth to emerge as
>"Sharbat!" (successor to Shakira, our current foreign-born singing
>infatuation).
>
>Sound, Stage, Screen and Print! She'll go on a whirlwind tour, pledging 1%
>of the proceeds (after tax) to help other less fortunately-photographed
>Afghan refugees.
>
>Ultimately, driven to depression and self-loathing by the Hollywood
machine,
>she'll drive her Hummer off the Venice Beach pier into the Pacific,
injuring
>only one young surfer.
>
>While recovering in the Betty Ford Clinic, she strikes up a friendship with
>Mariah Carrey and moves in to her mansion in Brentwood.
>
>But Hollywood's through with the both of them and the agents stop calling
>(even the tabloid paparazzi save their film). They're evicted and take
>up life on the street where they both disappear into the invisible caste of
>west coast refugees, pushing their shopping carts filled with decaying
>copies of Glamour, down Sunset Blvd.
>
>Then, Steve McCurry, while on Vacation in LA, manages to capture a
>frightening image of the two of them as they mob his Lexus. Again, iris
>pattern matching is employed to confirm the identities of the two vagrant
>women, and the newly famous image ends up on the cover of National
>Geographic.
>
>
>In jest,
>
>Chris Hoover
>hoovercd@pacbell.net
>NO ARCHIVE
>
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