Tribal Asia

The image below is from 'Tribal Asia' by Robert Schmid and Fritz Trupp and shows a Bedouin Woman wearing an intricately detailed veil. The glints of silver throughout the material make it stand out and catch the viewers eye. I can imagine the sounds that the silver would make as this Bedouin woman moved her face around. The colours are also very complimentary to one another with the reds, oranges and yellows and the hints of a bright blue running through. The black hood around the face frames the veil and completes the look. This image shows the intricacy and attention to detail in the making of the clothing for this tribe. Even the detail on the edging of the black material shows a delicate touch on the dark colour. I love this image because of the level of detail in this image and the hard work that must have gone into it. 

Bedouin women always wear Burka's when out in public, this is a veil that covers the whole face leaving oval slits for the eyes. In Arabia, the women would not just wear black veils, the slits of the eyes would be decorated and embellished in some sort of way (as shown below). On this page of the book, the subtitle for the text below the image is, 'The power of a glance', this is a very interesting statement for me to think about because I feel that this image actually does have a very powerful look to it. In my own images, I should consider the fact that even though parts of the face may be covered by a veil or headdress, the look of my model should still be powerful, either through the eye makeup applied or purely by the look and emotion that my model portrays.