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Persia through the Lens: Poetics and Politics of Architectural Photographs in Pahlavi Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Yuka Kadoi
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Abstract

Having been introduced to the scholarly community and the general public through a variety of photographic presentations during the inter-war period, monuments in Iran, particularly those of pre-modern Islamic periods, became key buildings to be seized upon as the ultimate embodiment of Persian beauty. The lasting image of Persian Islamic architecture that was articulated through photographs continues not only to set an important benchmark for the understanding of the aesthetic and political matrix of the early twentieth century but also to provoke a methodological question as to the future of Persian architectural studies.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 6: Visualizing Iran: From Antiquity to the Present , November 2017 , pp. 873 - 893
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2017

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Footnotes

The author is grateful to Ali Gheissari, Ranin Kazemi and Samad Alavi who guided this article through production. Thanks are also due to Sheila Blair and Judith Lerner for their help and advice.

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