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Contents

Information requests
1Improving content on the history of photography in this country and how you can help
Improving content
2Improving content on contemporary photographers
Introduction
3Introduction to photography in Iran
4Persians
Early photographers
5Frances Carlhian: Album page showing the Shah of Persia - Nasir al-Din Shah
6Nasir al-Din Shah
7Luigi Pesce: Persia (1850s)
8Luigi Montabone: Ricordi del viaggio in Persia della missione italiana (1862)
9Antione Sevruguin: Portraits
10René Davy de Chavigné de Balloy: Persia (1881-1897)
Places
11Tebriz - Tabriz
12Zengian - Zanjan
13Sultanieh - Soltaniyeh
14Teheran - Tehran
15Persepolis
Archaeology
16Iran: Archaeological sites
Aerial photography and archaeology
17Erich F. Schmidt: Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran (taken 1935-1937, published 1940)
War
18Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988): Introduction
Found photographs and identity
19Najaf Shokri: Iran Dokht
Contemporary photographers
20Shadi Ghadirian: Women
Arab and Iranian contemporary photography
21Introduction to Arab and Iranian contemporary photography
22Issues in the representation of the Arab World

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