{"id":16942,"date":"2012-02-06T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shahrefarang.com\/images-of-the-departed\/"},"modified":"2012-02-06T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:35:00","slug":"images-of-the-departed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/images-of-the-departed\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of the Departed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Documenting and preserving one\u2019s image on gravestone or monument has never been common in the Iran. But since the introduction of photography and the emergence of western-inspired traditions of publishing obituaries in the newspaper, Iranian began to publish the pictures of their lost ones in daily newspapers, on posters, and more recently on gravestones.<\/p>\n

These images are usually decorated with inscriptions and symbols. Women’s faces are mostly replaced with female pictograms.<\/p>\n