Maryam Zandi
Happiness of people on the day the Shah left Iran, Enghelab and other streets16 January 1979, printed 2016

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Artist or Maker: Maryam Zandi
Iran, born 1947
Title: Happiness of people on the day the Shah left Iran, Enghelab and other streets
Date Made: 16 January 1979, printed 2016
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Primary support: 21 3/8 × 28 1/8 in. (54.29 × 71.44 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Art of the Middle East: CONTEMPORARY
Accession Number: M.2016.240.5
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
Curatorial Notes: Maryam Zandi was one of the few women photojournalists to document the revolution; her carefully framed and often provocative compositions testify to her talent and her bravery. Here Zandi’s photograph documents the elated crowds (a member of which holds aloft a newspaper featuring the historic headline, "The Shah Left") that filled Tehran’s streets following the departure of the shah January 16, 1979.
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.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Maryam Zandi
Iran, born 1947
Title: Happiness of people on the day the Shah left Iran, Enghelab and other streets
Date Made: 16 January 1979, printed 2016
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Primary support: 21 3/8 × 28 1/8 in. (54.29 × 71.44 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Art of the Middle East: CONTEMPORARY
Accession Number: M.2016.240.5
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
Curatorial Notes: Maryam Zandi was one of the few women photojournalists to document the revolution; her carefully framed and often provocative compositions testify to her talent and her bravery. Here Zandi’s photograph documents the elated crowds (a member of which holds aloft a newspaper featuring the historic headline, "The Shah Left") that filled Tehran’s streets following the departure of the shah January 16, 1979.
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.