Bahman Jalali
Bahman Jalali is a Persian/Iranian name. There are few Persians/Iranians with this name, but the most famous one to date was (1944 – 15 January 2010) an Iranian photographer who taught photography at different universities in Iran for 20 years.
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[edit] Career
He graduated in Economics from Melli University in Tehran, then started his career as a photographer with Tamasha Magazine in 1972.
He is best known for his documentary photographs from Iranian Revolution in 1979 and from the Iran-Iraq war, but after the revolution he focused more on teaching photography at Iranian Universities than practicing it.
He was the curator of Iran's first museum of photography and inspired a generation of emerging Iranian photographers.
His latest work was a photo series called "Image of Imaginations", which took three years (2003–2006) for him to complete. It was a mixture of flowers or Iranian calligraphy with old photographs from throughout Iranian photographic history. He explained later: “I have been exposed to many images by little known photographers around the country. Those that I could keep, I have held as mementos, and others have left their marks on my imagination.”.[1] The Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes has bought this photo series for their collection.
He was given a very special homage for his forty years of career in photography by the Fundacio Antoni Tapies in Barcelona with a special solo exhibition curated by Catherine David from September to December 2007, with the publication of a book. He contributed to the prestigious exhibition in the British Museum of London, Word into Art : Artists of the Modern Middle East in 2006.[2]
Until the end of his life, Bahman Jalali was a member of the editorial board for Aksnameh, a bi-monthly journal of photography in Tehran.
The veteran photographer was being treated for pancreatic cancer in Germany. He returned to his home in Tehran on 14 January 2010 and died the next morning at the age of 65.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Ey! Iran: of Contemporary Iranian Photography in (Exhibition in Australia)
- ^ [1] Silk Road Gallery
- ^ Iranian photographer Bahman Jalali dies at 65 Press TV. Retrieved on 17 January 2010.
[edit] Publications
Catherine David, cur. Bahman Jalali (Barcelona: Fundacio Antoni Tapies, 2007). 296 pages.
Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, sous la direction de, "La photographie iranienne, Un regard sur la création contemporaine" (L'Atelier d'édition-Loco/Silk Road Gallery, 2011) 191 pages
[edit] External links
- Bahman Jalali in Kargah
- L'ànima d'una màquina sense ànima: Reflexions sobre la fotografia de Bahman Jalali (Catalan) an essay by Hamid Dabashi
- Bahman Jalali / Image Of Imagination
- Fundació Antoni Tàpies Press images : Bahman Jalali
- Unfinished Picture : Bahman Jalali – A documentary About Bahman Jalali
- Silk Road Gallery, Bahman Jalali
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