IRAN / A PICTURE BOOK

Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has developed its own image culture, with public space serving primarily as a transit zone and a scr een where state-sanctioned religious ideology is projected. Pride of place is given to memorials to the first Gulf war (the Iran-Ira q War of 198088), which is part of the founding myth of the Islamic Republic. Between 2011 and 2014 Oliver Hartung produced a work on Iran, typological series of images depicting monuments, murals, architecture, and war cemeteries. In it he creates a portrait of an exceptio...[Read more]