- Artist or Maker
- Abbas
Iran, 1944-2018 - Title
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's portrait is exhibited by the crowd attending the opening of the Tehran university.
- Date Made
- 1979, printed 2016
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 9 15/16 × 14 3/4 in. (25.24 × 37.47 cm)
Primary support: 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2016.199.5
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
In the tumultuous penultimate days of the shah, protests and strikes paralyzed the nation. Schools and universities were closed, newspapers suspended, and public assembly prohibited. This photograph, in which Ayatollah Khomeini’s portrait is exhibited by a crowd, was taken on January 14, 1979, at the reopening of Tehran University, two days before the shah left Iran.
- Selected 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.
