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In 1960, Garanger, a 25-year-old draftee who had already been photographing professionally for ten years, landed in Kabylia, in the small village of Ain Terzine, about seventy-five miles south of Algiers.&nbsp;Garanger&rsquo;s commanding officer decreed that the villagers must have identity cards: &ldquo;Naturally he asked the military photographer to make these cards,&rdquo; Garanger recalls. &ldquo;Either I refused and went to prison, or I accepted.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I would come within three feet of them,&rdquo; Garanger remembers. &ldquo;They would be unveiled. In a period of ten days, I made two thousand portraits, two hundred a day. The women had no choice in the matter. Their only way of protesting was through their look.&rdquo;
Read more:&nbsp;http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/23/women-unveiled-marc-garangers-contested-portraits-of-1960s-algeria/#ixzz2RUaQLNXJ
