- Title
- Untitled
- Date Made
- 1979, printed 2016
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 24 1/16 × 28 1/8 in. (61.12 × 71.44 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2016.240.2
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
This photograph recording a collage of cutout and defaced images of the shah, mocking him as a demonic agent of the United States, was probably the work of students at Tehran University. Shot in early 1979, the playfulness and audacity of the anti-shah messaging, which gave way to scenes of violence, factionalism, and fear in the photographs Maryam Zandi made slightly later that year.
- 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.
