--- product_id: 38841402 title: "Rania Matar: L'Enfant-Femme" price: "$8006.15" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.ec/products/38841402-rania-matar-lenfant-femme store_origin: EC region: Ecuador --- # Rania Matar: L'Enfant-Femme **Price:** $8006.15 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Rania Matar: L'Enfant-Femme - **How much does it cost?** $8006.15 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ec](https://www.desertcart.ec/products/38841402-rania-matar-lenfant-femme) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description In today’s world of endless photographing, tagging and posting images online, what is a pre-teen girl’s relationship to the camera? Upending assumptions of contemporary digital image-making practices, photographer Rania Matar (born 1964) reframes these young women through her poignant portraits of them, revealing in L’Enfant-Femme how girls between the ages of 8 and 13 interact with the camera and in so doing depicts them in deeply personal and poetic ways. Addressing themes of representation, voyeurism and transgression, these images remind us of the fragility of youth while also gesturing toward its unbridled curiosity and joy. Photographing girls in the Middle East and the United States, Matar makes us examine our universality, a beauty that transcends place, background and religion. Candidly capturing her subjects at a critical juncture in the early stages of adolescence, Matar conveys the confluence of angst, sexuality and personhood that defines the progression from childhood into adulthood. Review: Understanding pre-adolescent imaginings on road to adulthood - Rania Matar has outdone herself, and that is hard to do. Her work was already perfect, but this book is extraordinary. I loved the introduction by Queen Noor, the heart-grabbing essay by Lois Lowry, and the Afterword by Kristen Gresh. They have captured in words what Matar intended and succeeded in doing with these photographs of pre-adolescent girls. I sat last night for three hours looking over and over again at each photo. Matar captured the intensity, the shyness, the self assertions, the everything that goes with trying to flower into an adult woman. I saw myself in so many of those photos, and they brought back memories of my first attempts to look beautiful, to assert myself, to be arrogantly smart, to be to be….. Thank you for this magnificent book. I know how much labor and cost go into producing such a magnificent book. The price allows access to it by many. Clearly, the book is worth much more. It is art conveying humanity in a very creative form. The beauty of it is that Matar has succeeded in conveying the universality of the process and inner life of growing up female. She has provided a depth of understanding into the complexity of pre-adolescent identity formation which alludes so many others who claim authority. Beautiful Review: Amazing book! - L’Enfant-Femme continues to reveal new things every time I open the cover. Rania Matar has produced a beautiful object in every way. The printing is particularly wonderful, which is essential to revealing the subtle color pallet she employs in the beautiful portraits that are awash a similarly quiet lighting as some of my favorite Northern Renaissance painters, or the lonely scenes by Hopper, but which is uniquely Matar’s. Then of course there is the intimacy she captures with the subjects, often pairing portraits together in fascinating juxtapositions revealing the universality of the human experience. One of the most touching elements of this series is the coupling of photos she made of individuals at 2 different ages; seeing the transformation the ladies go through is amazing. To compliment Matar’s work are a couple of really sensitive essay’s that delve into the significance of the series. I believe Rania Matar addresses some incredibly important ideas in her work, using the camera with elegance and intelligence. This book definitely earned a place of honor on my bookshelf. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #5,861,281 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3,293 in Individual Photographer Monographs #5,163 in Portrait Photography #13,625 in Photograpy Equipment & Techniques | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 11 Reviews | ## Images ![Rania Matar: L'Enfant-Femme - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61MYfMqVm7L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Understanding pre-adolescent imaginings on road to adulthood *by A***R on February 26, 2016* Rania Matar has outdone herself, and that is hard to do. Her work was already perfect, but this book is extraordinary. I loved the introduction by Queen Noor, the heart-grabbing essay by Lois Lowry, and the Afterword by Kristen Gresh. They have captured in words what Matar intended and succeeded in doing with these photographs of pre-adolescent girls. I sat last night for three hours looking over and over again at each photo. Matar captured the intensity, the shyness, the self assertions, the everything that goes with trying to flower into an adult woman. I saw myself in so many of those photos, and they brought back memories of my first attempts to look beautiful, to assert myself, to be arrogantly smart, to be to be….. Thank you for this magnificent book. I know how much labor and cost go into producing such a magnificent book. The price allows access to it by many. Clearly, the book is worth much more. It is art conveying humanity in a very creative form. The beauty of it is that Matar has succeeded in conveying the universality of the process and inner life of growing up female. She has provided a depth of understanding into the complexity of pre-adolescent identity formation which alludes so many others who claim authority. Beautiful ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing book! *by B***G on February 2, 2016* L’Enfant-Femme continues to reveal new things every time I open the cover. Rania Matar has produced a beautiful object in every way. The printing is particularly wonderful, which is essential to revealing the subtle color pallet she employs in the beautiful portraits that are awash a similarly quiet lighting as some of my favorite Northern Renaissance painters, or the lonely scenes by Hopper, but which is uniquely Matar’s. Then of course there is the intimacy she captures with the subjects, often pairing portraits together in fascinating juxtapositions revealing the universality of the human experience. One of the most touching elements of this series is the coupling of photos she made of individuals at 2 different ages; seeing the transformation the ladies go through is amazing. To compliment Matar’s work are a couple of really sensitive essay’s that delve into the significance of the series. I believe Rania Matar addresses some incredibly important ideas in her work, using the camera with elegance and intelligence. This book definitely earned a place of honor on my bookshelf. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The book is beautiful. I knew it would be *by A***R on February 1, 2016* The book is beautiful. I knew it would be, but there's something about reading the essays, meeting the girls, and holding the images in my hands that gives them even more intimacy. They make me think about my students, 14 years old and up but still struggling with the same journey of finding themselves, sexually, physically, emotionally, socially. They make me think about the daughters I hope to have and the mother I hope to be, and how delicate and nuanced the dance is in between self-empowerment and external influences....how to protect and instill independence. I can't wait to share this work with my students. (And, down the road, with my children). 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