Carol Bier and Lionel Bier Collection
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2008.01
name: label: Creator
content: Bier, Carol
label: Creator
content: Bier, Lionel D., 1942-2004
place: label: Place
content: Mamasani (Iran)
label: Place
content: Iran -- Fars
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology -- Iran
label: Topic
content: Architecture, Sassanid
creator: label: Creator
content: Bier, Carol
label: Creator
content: Bier, Lionel D., 1942-2004
culture: label: Culture
content: Sassanians
label: Culture
content: Qashqāʼī (Turkic people) -- Iran
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content: Carol Bier and Lionel Bier Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Carol Bier is an historian of Islamic art who is Research Associate at The Textile Museum in Washington, DC, where she served as Curator for Eastern Hemisphere Collections from 1984-2001. Her research focuses on Islamic patterns as intersections of art and mathematics.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: The late Lionel D. Bier, art historian and archaeologist, taught art history at Brooklyn College for more than 30 years. He was primarily active in researching the archaeological record of pre- and early-Islamic Iran. Among his noted publications are: Sarvistan: A Study in Early Iranian Architecture (1986) and The Sassanian Palaces and their Influence in Early Islam, from Ars Orientalis (Vol. 23, 1993)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975-1976
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Carol Bier on behalf of both herself and the estate of the late Lionel Bier.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2008.01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Organized into two series:
Series 1: Contact Sheets and Negatives
Series 2: Contact Prints
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles, including terminology and location names, are recorded as they appeared on the original folders.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Negatives
label: Genre/Form
content: Slides (photographs) -- 1950-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs taken by Carol Bier and Lionel Bier, comprising two binders of black and white 35mm negatives and contact sheets as well as a collection of images cut out from contact sheets and organized by site, documenting both pre-Islamic and Islamic Iranian architectural monuments, taken 1975-1976. Focus primarily on the Sasanian sites of Fars province, focusing on built monuments, rock reliefs, and rock-cut monuments. Sites include: Firuzabad, Naqshi-Rustam, Naqshi-Rajab, Bishapur, Sarvistan, and Taq-i Bustan. Also includes a small number of ethnographic images by Carol Bier, predominanly of the Qashqai and Mamasani. Some of these images have been used previously in publications by both the authors themselves as well as other scholars.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Lionel Bier Collection. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the Estate of Lionel Bier.