Exhibition Reviewed in WSJ Article
ISAW's current exhibition The Eye of the Shah: Qajar Court Photography and the Persian Past was reviewed in the NY Culture section of the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. The WSJ article highlights ways of seeing, appropriate for ISAW's first exhibition focused on the medium of photography.
The Eye of the Shah: Qajar Court Photography and the Persian Past presents some 200 photographic prints, a number of vintage photographic albums, and memorabilia that utilized formal portraiture of the shah, the exhibition shows how photographers—many of them engaged by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (r. 1848-1896), the longest reigning Shah of the Qajar Dynasty (1785-1925)— ultimately created a portrait of the country's ancient and recent past . Most of the photographs in the exhibition have never been publicly displayed.
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