liralen's review against another edition
4.0
It took me a while to get my hands on a copy of this, and I'm glad I finally did. Interesting set of pictures of teenage girls in Lebanon and the U.S. (primarily the Boston area).
The pictures themselves are well staged and show both striking contrasts and common themes. I'm not sure how Matar picked her subjects (well -- she started with her daughter's friends and branched out from there), but I would have liked a bit more racial/cultural diversity, especially in the U.S. photos (there are lots of (presumably) middle-class white girls). I also would have loved more text -- some of the photos inspire some serious room envy, but I'm also terribly curious about the stories behind them. Maybe that's outside the scope of this project, but if that's the case, I wish it weren't.
The pictures themselves are well staged and show both striking contrasts and common themes. I'm not sure how Matar picked her subjects (well -- she started with her daughter's friends and branched out from there), but I would have liked a bit more racial/cultural diversity, especially in the U.S. photos (there are lots of (presumably) middle-class white girls). I also would have loved more text -- some of the photos inspire some serious room envy, but I'm also terribly curious about the stories behind them. Maybe that's outside the scope of this project, but if that's the case, I wish it weren't.
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