Camera Obscura: Making and breaking images in Taliban-era Afghanistan

Who can forget the innocence of those fin-de-siècle days? That halcyon time when Michael Moore was still a cult figure, the Taliban still had offices in Queens, and Afghan medical students still recoiled at the thought that Monica Lewinski was not the most beautiful woman in America? From Flushing to Kandahar, Harlem to Kabul, Alan Edelstein was there—and he has the tapes to prove it.