Twelve Photographic Journeys: Iran in 21st Century

by Anahita Ghabaian, Minou Saberi

Overview

This book explores, through the vision of ten contemporary Iranian photographers, the contrasts and contradictions that exist in Iranian Society at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Each representation is different to the next and each image serves to represent the main conflict present in Iran today: that of the power of tradition versus the quest for modernity. Each of the ten photographers has chosen an aspect of daily life in their country, for example, a café, a shopping mall, and the clerics, with each serving to show another part of the mosaic of cultural experience in Iran. One theme that remains constant through all of the images is that of women, who remain living symbols of the interaction between change and stagnation. In this book, women test the limits of the Hijab and their experience is used to represent that of young women all around the world.

Distributed by I.B.Tauris

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850437192
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/26/2005
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.65(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Anahita Ghabaian and Minou Saberi are both specialists on contemporary culture in Iran. Both live in Tehran, where they founded and run Silk Road Gallery.

Table of Contents

Introduction
• Walls--Omid Salehi & Javad Montazeri
• Everyday Life Notes--Hana Darabi
• Ashoura--Arshia Kiani & Hamideh Zolfaghari
• Body Building--Abbas Kowsari
• Clerics--Javad Montazeri
• Les Flaneuses--Abbas Kowsari
• Living Martyr--Omid Salehi
• A Café in Tehran--Mehraneh Atashi
• Steps--Bahman Jalali
• Bus Trip--Farzaneh Khademian
• The Mall--Yalda Moayeri
• Women--Javad Montazeri & Omid Salehi
• Biographies