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Portrait photographs from Isfahan : faces in transition, 1920-1950
Abstract
The establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 meant women were forced to wear the hijab, and photographs of them uncovered were forbidden. As a result, many photographers studios were burnt to the ground, while remaining archives of invaluable glass-plate negatives were left to moulder in attics.
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Parisa Damandan spent over ten years accumulating an impressive collection of pioneering early twentieth-century photographs from her hometown of Isfahan. Recently emancipated women posing in various state of dress; Polish war refugees on their tortuous journey home after fleeing the Nazis; men in fashionable hats or in traditional turbans and cloaks – these portraits offer a remarkable window on the changing face of Iranian society during a period of transition from a traditional to a modern culture.
Alongside these stunning images are essays on the development of portraiture in Isfahan, the social dimensions of portrait photography in Iran and the power of the gaze. [Fonte : editore]
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| Material type | Monografia | |
| Format | Testo a stampa (moderno) | |
| Description | *Portrait photographs from Isfahan : faces in transition, 1920-1950 / Parisa Damandan. - London : Saqi ; The Hague : Prince Claus Fund Library, 2004. - 263 p. : ill., fotogr. b/n ; 30 cm | |
| ISBN | 9780863565533 | |
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| Publisher | Prince Claus Fund Library | |
| Saqi | ||
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| Publication year | 2004 | |
| Language | Inglese | |
| Thesaurus | Children | |
| History | ||
| Men | ||
| Portraits | ||
| Refugees | ||
| Social conditions | ||
| Social photography | ||
| Women | ||
| Workers | ||
| Years |
1920d
1930d 1940d 1950d |
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| Places |
Iran
Isfahan |
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| Dewey | 779.2095595 |