Bahman Jalali
Contributors: David, Catherine, 1954- writer of added text; Behdad, Ali, 1961- writer of added text; Dabashi, Hamid, 1951- writer of added text; Shayegan, Darius, writer of added text; Stiftung Niedersachsen; Sprengel Museum Hannover
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Köln
Language: ger
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9783863350260
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: History; Exhibitions; War photography; Iranians; Artistic Photography; Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988; Documentary photography
Description: Bahman Jalali is one of the key figures in contemporary Iranian photography. His artistic position is increasingly perceived in the art world as a major contribution to photography.His work is a testimony to the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War and the post-war years. It also documents daily life as well traditional architectural forms. His role in conserving, studying, and transmitting the cultural heritage of his country in his photographs has made him one of the most important chroniclers of contemporary Iranian society and culture. Exhibition: Sprengel Museum Hannover.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Spectrum" Internationaler Preis für Fotografie der Stiftung Niedersachsen: Bahman Jalali at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, 29 May-21 August 2011.

Cover title.

Text by Catherine David, Ali Behdad, Hamid Dabshi, and Dariush Shayegan.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in German and English.
Table of contents: title: Iran's revolution, 1978-79; title: Iran-Iraq war, 1980-88; title: Image of imagination, 2000-08.