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Lot Essay
Bahman Jalali's comments on his 'Image and Imaginations' series:
"94 years ago a photo studio was opened in Isfahan called Chehrehnama. It was one of the most important studios in the history of photography in Iran. After the revolution, I came across the sign for the Chehrehnama studio, which had been closed years ago. Someone had drawn with red paint on it in order to ruin it, apparently in reaction to some women's pictures which were taken without the veil in that studio. Because of my interest in the history of photography in Iran, I collect anything concerning photography. After finding this sign, and having portraits of women taken in those days' studios in my archive, I came up with the idea of mixing these two; the sign and the portraits. I mixed two eras, the present and the past, and their reaction to the pictures of women."
"94 years ago a photo studio was opened in Isfahan called Chehrehnama. It was one of the most important studios in the history of photography in Iran. After the revolution, I came across the sign for the Chehrehnama studio, which had been closed years ago. Someone had drawn with red paint on it in order to ruin it, apparently in reaction to some women's pictures which were taken without the veil in that studio. Because of my interest in the history of photography in Iran, I collect anything concerning photography. After finding this sign, and having portraits of women taken in those days' studios in my archive, I came up with the idea of mixing these two; the sign and the portraits. I mixed two eras, the present and the past, and their reaction to the pictures of women."