- Title
- Untitled
- Date Made
- 1979, printed 2016
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 28 1/4 × 21 in. (71.76 × 53.34 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2016.240.4
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
Maryam Zandi’s cool eye for choosing her subjects is particularly evident in this image of a man ecstatically holding a newspaper with the headline, "The Shah Left." There is something both charming and sad in this scene of unrestrained happiness, for, within a few months, many of the newspapers proclaiming the glad tidings of the shah’s departure would be shuttered by the new leadership.
- 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.
