FEMMES ALGERIENNES 1960

Marc Garanger
FEMMES ALGERIENNES 1960

Photographs: Marc Garanger

Text: Marc Garanger

Publisher: Contrejour

120 pages

Year: 1982

Comments: Hardcover under dustjacket, 30,5 x 25cm. First edition, text in French and Arabic, b&w photographs. In very good condition, apart from a small tear on the dust jacket and a few scuffs; there is also some slight yellowing. Inside, it is fresh and clean.

In 1960, I was doing my military service in Algeria.
The French army had decided that the local population must hold a French identity card to better control their movements within the ‘resettlement villages’. I thus photographed nearly two thousand people, the vast majority of whom were women, at a rate of two hundred a day. I was met with their gaze at point-blank range, the first witness to their silent, violent protest. I wish to bear witness to them.