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Th[o/e]se Days

Th[o/e]se Days

“Th[o/e]se Days” is a new collection of photos by Shahin Shahriari & Sina Bagheri. For this collection, they had used pictures of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and merged them with the new shots of the same spots in Tehran today.

For this collection the photographers used pictures of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and merged them with the new shots of the same spots in Tehran today.

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Don Quixote

“Talai” Book Series

Talai (Golden) Book Series was a collection of simplified and abridged classics for kids published by Amir Kabir publication company in Tehran during the 1960s and 1970s. Their affordable price made them very popular among many children. For many, these books were their first introduction to the world literature.

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The Qotb (Guru) of Dervishes

Dervishes of Sheshdeh

Photograph from the meeting of Sheshdeh’s dervishes with an important Sufi, the man who is wearing a cloak, sitting above the sixth person from left on the bottom row.

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Bastinado (Postcard)

Falak (Bastinado)

Until the 1920s Falak (bastinado) was the dominant form of public punishment and torture in Iran. Bastinado was used to punish children, servants, criminals, dissidents, and even the members of the elite and the government officials.

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Ferdowsi Avenue, 1962

Tehran’s Ferdowsi Avenue

Ferdowsi Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Tehran and it used to be called Ala’odoleh Avenue in Qajar period. It runs from Toopkhane in the south and after passing through Istanbul intersection it ends in Ferdowsi Square in the north.

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Vogue in Iran (1969)

In 1969 Henry Clarke, a fashion photographer, went to Iran to take a collection of pictures for Vogue. He photographed his models in mosques and palaces in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz and Persepolis. The pictures were published in Vogue on December 1969.

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