National Geographic and Afghan Girl
No cover is more famous than the one from June 1985 bearing the portrait and piercing green-eyed gaze of “Afghan Girl”. CNN called it the “world’s most famous photograph”. Read on to learn her story.
National Geographic magazine, published continuously since 1888, was launched by the newly established National Geographic Society with a purpose “to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge”.
In 1898 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, took the helm as Society Pr…