Their audience, the new middle class of the Industrial Age, wanted pretty pictures, full of lovely landscapes, beautiful women with flowing tresses, lavish interiors.

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One morning in Nimoo I say jullay (hello) and smile at a lovely older woman--Ladakh boasts some of the most beautiful women in the world--who is heading out to work the dikes.

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Consider, for example, Greta Garbo's lovely, sad, saucer eyes, or a puzzling, dazzling photo of three women wearing stark white, flanking a white horse and standing in what looks like a white-tiled communal shower (actually Steichen's studio).

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