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Kabul Coppersmith, Afghanistan, 1946

"In an open-air shop in Kabul, a coppersmith fingers his prayer beads, as his tolerant eyes take the measure of writer-photographer Williams. Were he to change his dress, he would be very much at home in an American country store."

—From "Geographica/Classic: Back to Afghanistan," December 2004, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams

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