Portrait Index by Studio Soussi, (Sidon, Lebanon), 100 pages, approximately 150 portraits on each page. This installation of 3,600 passport photos is a project by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari with the Arab Image Foundation. And they are all the work of a single commercial photographer, Antranik Anouchian (1908-1991), who ran a busy studio in the cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic city of Tripoli in Lebanon, where Muslims, Christians and Jews coexisted.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Portrait Index
Portrait Index by Studio Soussi, (Sidon, Lebanon), 100 pages, approximately 150 portraits on each page. This installation of 3,600 passport photos is a project by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari with the Arab Image Foundation. And they are all the work of a single commercial photographer, Antranik Anouchian (1908-1991), who ran a busy studio in the cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic city of Tripoli in Lebanon, where Muslims, Christians and Jews coexisted.
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