Maryam Zandi
Untitled1979, printed 2016

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Artist or Maker: Maryam Zandi
Iran, born 1947
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)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Art of the Middle East: CONTEMPORARY
Accession Number: M.2016.240.2
Classification: Photographs
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.

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Not on view

Artist or Maker: Maryam Zandi
Iran, born 1947
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)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Art of the Middle East: CONTEMPORARY
Accession Number: M.2016.240.2
Classification: Photographs
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.