Look inside Robin Graubard’s remarkable new book
left New York – where she’d come of age against the backdrop of 1960s counterculture and 1970s punk – and bought an airline ticket to Prague. “I decided to go after meeting a group of women in a park outside the UN Building,” she writes in her newly-published photo diary from the period, titledGraubard ended up staying for several years. As planned, she documented the Bosnian War, staying on the frontline in a Sarajevo hotel besieged with stray bullets and shelling.
At the same time, many of the images in the photo diary present another, more optimistic reality. Kids play arcade games in camo cargo pants and Public Enemy T-shirts; others kiss, or clutch vinyl in the front row of a concert. At a school for girls just outside Prague, Graubard remembers: “All the girls let loose as I began photographing. They jumped onto their desks and scrawled on the walls with lipstick.
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