do you remember her?

JonMikal · Aug 31, 2005

this was the cover of a 1985 national geographic issue. some of you may have seen, but when they took the pic they failed to learn her identity. 20 years later, they search for her.....check it out:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0204/sights_n_sounds/media2.html

photo gal · Aug 31, 2005

wow, she sure is beautiful!

Corry · Aug 31, 2005

I thought I had read they found her.

Corry · Aug 31, 2005

Yeah...Ok..now that I read it, they did find her.

I read about this a few years ago, in a National Geographic 'best photos' edition...I'll go see if I still have it.

terri · Aug 31, 2005

I do. She had this amazingly expressive face, so beautiful, so haunted, too. I saw recently that they had found her, and taken another shot. :thumbup:

Interesting story!

danalec99 · Aug 31, 2005

Yes. I think it happened couple of months ago.

JonMikal · Aug 31, 2005

i figured you had...for those who haven't or just wanna see the video, click on the link...interesting story.

bace · Aug 31, 2005

Too bad they didn't pluck her out of that society. She'd probably be a model with that face.

Gorgeous.

Corry · Aug 31, 2005

It has been a few years, not months...I wasn't sure myself, so I googled it and found an article from 2003.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html

And Jonmikal is right...it is pretty interesting.

danalec99 · Aug 31, 2005

It sure is interesting. It is surprising that she did not know that her portrait was world famous!

Corry · Aug 31, 2005

danalec99 said:
It sure is interesting. It is surprising that she did not know that her portrait was world famous!

It would be surprising for people in our culture...but we can only really imagine exactly how her culture is.

That's what JonMikal is trying to do...he's trying ot make us more cultured with these National Geographic links! :lol:

There's that book i was talking about:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/100best/

Big Mike · Aug 31, 2005

I watched a one-hour long show about this on the N.G. channel...very interesting.

An interesting part was when they were in one of the major cities, just starting their search. That image is everywhere, it's being sold in tourist shops like it's a national flag....and she lives in a village with no idea about her fame.

JonMikal · Aug 31, 2005

core_17 said:
It would be surprising for people in our culture...but we can only really imagine exactly how her culture is.

That's what JonMikal is trying to do...he's trying ot make us more cultured with these National Geographic links!

There's that book i was talking about:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/100best/