- Title
- Tina
- Date Made
- 2010-2012
- Medium
- Pigment print
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 17 1/4 × 25 in. (43.82 × 63.5 cm)
Frame: 22 1/2 × 30 1/4 × 1 in. (57.15 × 76.84 × 2.54 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2017.245.1
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
In the series "Tina," photographer Tahmineh Monzavi documents several years in the life of a transsexual woman (for whom the series is named) living in Iran. Taken at a point of transition in Tina’s life from drug addiction and homelessness to sobriety and living in a women’s shelter, many of Monzavi’s tender black and white portraits capture intimate moments from her private life, such as her reading a book in bed or getting dressed. In other cases, Monzavi shows Tina in the public sphere on the streets of Tehran. In these images Tina is often alone, such as this print of her adjusting her hijab, a legally required head scarf worn by women in Iran, while standing in front of a banner that commemorates the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, in the seventh century.
- 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.
