Advertising in Iranian newspapers was a new phenomenon in the late 1920s. Advertisements introduced Iranians to some other new phenomena such as cars, radio, instant cameras, and the European-style outfit that revolutionized how Iranians lived and interacted with each other.
The ads here are selected from the newspapers published between 1926 to 1931.
The ancient city of Bushehr on the Persian gulf, also known as “Bushire” in English, used to be a prosperous and active port for centuries, especially during the 19th century. But by the 1930s the city declined in importance, and many of its buildings were abandoned. The photos here, taken in the early 1970s, show the last remains of Bushehr’s traditional architecture.
At the 29th Tehran International Book Fair (4-14 May 2016) the visitors could put on military costume, hold a grenade, and take photos in front of backdrop picture of the war ruins in Syria. The photo-booth was called “The Defenders of the Shrine”. IRNA, the publisher of these photographs, describes them as “virtual and spiritual.”
Discussing her pictures the photographer, Samin Ahmadzadeh, says: “This series was taken from a single location in Tehran on a street famed for its shopping. The movement of people as they negotiate their way through the crowds provided a sense of theater from the everyday. Light from the shop windows illuminates single faces in this flowing crowd, guiding the eye around the picture and allowing a focus on a personal space.”
The pictures here are taken in Tajrish, Tehran, on March 20th 2014, 5 hours before the beginning of the Persian new year.
Photographs taken in an Animal Hospital in Tehran in 2009 and shows pets and their owners in different parts of the hospital.
Discussing his pictures of the Friday flea market in Darvazeh-Esfahan, the photographer, Kamran Heidari, says: “This is the only place that you feel life is going on. If you want to see the real Shiraz you have to see this place. [The touristic] Zandiyeh complex is always there to visit but this [flea market] is there only for three hours.”
The pictures are taken between 2008 and 2013.
Tehran street musicians play and sing for passers-by outside Paytakht Building, located at Mirdamad Avenue, Tehran.
Paytakht Building is a shopping centre for computer hardware and software in an upper-middle class neighbourhood in Tehran.
Photographs from Gholam-Hossein Saedi’s “Ilkhchi”, an ethnography of a village located in Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province (1963, Tehran).
Mosaic decorating in San’at Square. Shahrake Gharb, Tehran, October 2012.
