Mural News/ Streets of Tehran

Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East
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Mural News/ Streets of Tehran

Edition: 1/3

1979, printed 2016
Photographs
Gelatin silver print
Primary support: 24 1/16 × 29 1/4 in. (61.12 × 74.3 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by Art of the Middle East: CONTEMPORARY (M.2016.240.1)
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

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The greatest public demonstrations in the history of Iran, directed against the shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (r. 1941–79), took place in December 1978. Maryam Zandi was one of the few women photojournalists to document the revolution. Her photograph of a man walking past graffiti reading, "Down with the Shah," which was painted over an earlier whitewashed message, is typical of the deliberate manner in which she selects and frames her compositions.
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Bibliography

  • 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.