Tina

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Tina

Edition: 1/7
2010-2012
Photographs
Pigment print
Primary support: 17 1/4 × 25 in. (43.82 × 63.5 cm) Frame: 22 1/2 × 30 1/4 × 1 in. (57.15 × 76.84 × 2.54 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by Catherine Benkaim and Barbara Timmer (M.2017.245.1)
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

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In the series "Tina," photographer Tahmineh Monzavi documents several years in the life of a transsexual woman (for whom the series is named) living in Iran. Taken at a point of transition in Tina’s life from drug addiction and homelessness to sobriety and living in a women’s shelter, many of Monzavi’s tender black and white portraits capture intimate moments from her private life, such as her reading a book in bed or getting dressed. In other cases, Monzavi shows Tina in the public sphere on the streets of Tehran. In these images Tina is often alone, such as this print of her adjusting her hijab, a legally required head scarf worn by women in Iran, while standing in front of a banner that commemorates the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, in the seventh century.
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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.