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  • Golam Kasem Daddy, Happy girl. Dacca, 1957, ink-jet print, 10 × 7".

    Golam Kasem Daddy, Happy girl. Dacca, 1957, ink-jet print, 10 × 7".

    Golam Kasem Daddy

    Drik Gallery

    A young girl, spider lilies tucked into her hair, smiles as she chews on a stalk of wheat. Behind her, a crinkled cloth sheet hangs in the sun. Titled simply Happy girl. Dacca, 1957, the photograph is one of the thirty-two black-and-white giclée prints in “When the Mind Says Yes,” a solo exhibition of Golam Kasem (1894–1998), who is widely considered the father of modern photography in Bangladesh and is better known as “Daddy.” In this image, his young subject wears hoop earrings and a pearl necklace. Her nails are painted, and stacked bangles encircle her wrist. Settled into her pose with

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