Untitled

© Kaveh Golestan Estate
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Untitled

Edition: 2/10

1979, printed 2015
Photographs
Gelatin silver print
Primary support: 24 × 30 in. (60.96 × 76.2 cm) Image: 18 × 27 1/2 in. (45.72 × 69.85 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Kaveh Golestan (M.2016.97)
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

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Best known as a documentary photographer, Kaveh Golestan in 1979 was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his brilliant visual account of the Iranian Revolution. This photograph is from that body of work and records the jubilant throngs (a member of which holds aloft a newspaper featuring the historic headline, "The Shah Left") that filled Tehran’s streets following the departure of the shah.
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Bibliography

  • Halasa, Malu, and Hengameh Golestan, eds. Kaveh Golestan: Recording the Truth in Iran. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007.
  • Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.