Execution by Swimming Pool: A Saudi Legend? October 16, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
While looking into the case of the execution of princess Misha’al in Saudi Arabia in 1977 Beach ran across this passage. Eight months after the airing of Death of a Princess [April 1980], another prince approached King Khalid asking approval to have his adulterous daughter executed [so early 1981?]. The King, fearing a repeat publicity […]
Review: Death of a Princess July 2, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
Death of a Princess, a modest British television documentary, turned out to be the most expensive film ever made. It cost perhaps a billion pounds and this was in 1980 when that kind of money could buy your three or four aircraft carriers. The piece, made for British television, tells the story of a nineteen-year-old Saudi […]
Crowds #4: Religion July 20, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
Beach has so far offered up three crowd photo collections: August 1914, Speaking to Crowds and Crowds as Art. Today he thought he’d move in a little deeper with religious crowds from a small file he’s been building up over the last couple of years. The picture that head’s this post is one of his […]
