This book, Iran, by Inge Morath, as featured by the NYT T Magazine, looks so fascinating. Morath, an Austrian-born photographer who later married playwright Arthur Miller, was sent by Holiday Magazine to capture images of Iran in 1956, putting her in the country at a peaceful time between the 1953 coup and the 1979 Revolution.
Though she was instructed by Holiday to capture two largely predictable themes-- mosques and Persian rugs-- she delved much deeper than that and captured everything from the ruins of Persepolis, to the Shah celebrating the new year, to children at work. The resulting photos give a rare glimpse into the country at peace.
Love this, from the NYT Magazine: "As “Reading Lolita in Tehran” author Azar Nafisi says in an essay about Morath’s work, 'In some of Morath’s photographs I felt that there was an affinity between that feeling of being overwhelmed by a past that is so huge and a present that is evasive and inaccessible.'"
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