Digitization for the Arab Image Foundation Photo Negatives collection was sponsored by an Emergency Grant from the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Digitization for the Arab Image Foundation Photo Negatives collection was sponsored by an Emergency Grant from the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Digitization for the Arab Image Foundation Photo Negatives collection was sponsored by an Emergency Grant from the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Digitization for the Arab Image Foundation Photo Negatives collection was sponsored by an Emergency Grant from the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Digitization for the Arab Image Foundation Photo Negatives collection was sponsored by an Emergency Grant from the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
In May 1887, the American periodical “Harper’s New Monthly Magazine” published an article about a trip from Tehran to Baghdad. The following images are from that article and show the outfits of Iranian women in that period. The photographs show the clothing of different minorities, as well as outfits for indoor and outdoor use and the different seasons.
At the turn of the 20th century, in the popular art and media of the “West,” the "Middle East" was depicted as a mysterious, exotic region. Cliched images such as camels, deserts, half-naked dancing women, and buildings with minarets and domes were ubiquitous in illustrating anything related to Iran or the Middle East.
Digitization for the Arab Image Foundation Photo Negatives collection was sponsored by an Emergency Grant from the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Digitization for the Arab Image Foundation Photo Negatives collection was sponsored by an Emergency Grant from the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Portraits of Iranian women from the late Qajar period (late 19th century to early 20th century). The images are from the photo archive of Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies.