Edward Grazda Collection on Afghanistan
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20240605
The collection consists of 48 silver gelatin work prints and more than two 250 items of printed ephemera related to the Afghan conflict primarily from 1977 to 2010, taken and collected by photographer Edward Grazda.
The collection includes posters, maps, and a poster-size spiral bound presentation book used to demonstrate the principles of democratic voting and rule to multilingual Afghan citizens. There are close to 150 smaller items of printed ephemera (Jamiat-e Islami pamphlets, Taliban propaganda, ICRC brochures, government booklets, etc.) mostly in English, Pashto, Dari; approximately 25 issues of Afghanistan-based magazines (Taliba-era and after) including Kandahar: Bi-Monthly Magazine of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Khilafat: Two Monthly Taliban’s Magazine, Islamic Movement of Taliban of Afghanistan, and EKALA: Social & Cultural Bimonthly Journal of Benawa Cultural Society; and another 30 issues of European and American Afghan-focus and émigré periodicals.
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Born in Flushing, Queens, Edward Grazda studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. During the 1970s he photographed in Latin America. Since 1980 he has photographed in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the author of “Afghanistan Diary 1992-2000” (PowerHouse Books, 2000) and “Afghanistan 1980-1989” (DerAlltag, 1990). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Double Take and Granta and is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and MOMA among others. He has received grants from The New York Foundation For The Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow four times. “NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York” with text by Jerrilynn Dodds and photographs by Edward Grazda was published by PowerHouse Books in May 2002. Ed continued to photograph in Afghanistan until 2004, and has photographed in Oman (2005-2006). “A Last Glance: Trading Posts of the Four Corners” was published by PowerHouse books in the Fall of 2015.
In 2009, with Jeff Ladd and Valerie Sonnenthal, Ed founded Errata Editions – a publishing company dedicated to making important rare photo books accessible with its Books on Books series. As of 2014, Errata Editions is part of The Errata Foundation, whose mission is to to bring a wider awareness of photography through our publications and create new dialogues and education surrounding great photographic bookworks.
[Source: edwardgrazda.com]
4.5 Cubic Feet (9 boxes, 9 oversized folders, 6 compact discs, 3 VHS tapes, and 2 audio cassette tapes)
1.17 Gigabytes (19 files)
English
Pushto; Pashto
Persian
The collection has been arranged into 5 series by the processing archivist:
Series 1: Photographs
Series 2: Graphic Materials
Series 3: Subject Files and Audiovisual Media
Series 4: Serial Publications
Series 5: Books
Purchased from Edward Grazda, 2024.
The collection has been rehoused in acid-free boxes and folders.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository