- Title
- Mural News/ Streets of Tehran
- Date Made
- 1979, printed 2016
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 24 1/16 × 29 1/4 in. (61.12 × 74.3 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2016.240.1
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
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.
- 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.
