“It was not just looking at portfolios. I met the artists, went to their studios”
The first major exhibition of contemporary Iranian photography in the United States emphasizes the interior life of individuals and families in Iran over journalism or documentary-type photography.
Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography From Iran tours 11 U.S. cities
College Park, Maryland -- The first major exhibition of contemporary Iranian photography in the United States emphasizes the interior life of individuals and families in Iran over journalism or documentary-type photography.
Co-curators Hamid Severi, of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran, and Gary Hallman, of the Regis Center for Art at the University of Minnesota, chose photos to show American audiences that, although Iran is awash in photojournalism, its photographers also have a modern, artistic sensibility, Hallman told USINFO. Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography From Iran travels to museums in 11 cities through 2009.
Hallman said the photographers in Persian Visions represent an "attitude" that photography is "a way to represent an idea, rather than show you what something looks like." He said the work measures up to the most poetic photography being exhibited worldwide, which increasingly is done by "interlopers," sculptors or artists who have no concern about photographic traditions.
full article by USINFO Staff WriterElizabeth Kelleher, and amazing images at http://www.payvand.com/news/07/apr/1180.html
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