Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: TROELLER, Gordian
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 11 x 14 inches; 27.94 x 35.56 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.057537

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, watermark: Agfa; handwritten: 2//; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; attached inscription, typed: 2// Algeria has gained their independence 3 years ago. There hade been / many bloody flights and after this the joy of victory was great. / The women too seemed to have gained their independence. The freedom / fighting woman has been celebrated as the heroine of the revolution. / The disillusion came soon after the victory. The new masters put / their women again behind veil and bars, under the pretense to be / true nationalists. The flight goes on. This time against their own / men. Many young girls choose suicide in preference to a life without / any freedom, and independence.; stamped: Copyright: / stern / Hamburg 1; stamped: Foto: Troeller; handwritten: Algeria

Tagasauris Keywords: 5 or more people; Close up; Day; Face; Male; Outdoors; Person; Unrest, conflicts and war
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ALGERIA / DEMONSTRATION/REVOLUTION, 1961-1962
Retouching: N