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Book - Iran 

Inge Morath 

I wanted to photograph the Silk Road, to follow Marco Polo’s traces to China. I thought it would be a good idea to start in Iran. So, I told Holiday Magazine that I would like to photograph Iran; that was in 1956. I was also very interested in the region, in old civilizations which are suddenly overbalanced by modern times. Iran was a country where they had started to build factories, but a lot was still medieval.
Robert Delpire came with me to Iran because he wanted to make a book. Later he left, and I finished the project on my own. It was crazy, because at that time it was very complicated for... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tahran. 1958. Street scene near the bazaar. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. Tehran market.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tahran. 1958. Street scene near the bazaar. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Stalls with old books, gold teeth, samovars,... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. Tehran market. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Shop interior.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Shoe shop. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Poor dervish beggar. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1956. Street scene. 

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IRAN. Tehran. 1956. Strong men performing.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1956. Street musician performing. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Men gather to perform traditional Persian... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. In a Zurkhana. The exercises are carried... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1956. In the gymnasium. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Street scene.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Street scene.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Street scene.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Street scene.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Chibouk smoker.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1956. Veiled women and girls struggling through... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1956. Street scene near the bazaar. 

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IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Inside the bazaar.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Inside the bazaar.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Inside the bazaar.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Inside the bazaar.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1956. Inside the bazaar. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Inside the bazaar.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Street vendor. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Inside the Ethnological Museum.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Nowruz reception, Golestan Palace.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Room being readied for the Nowruz reception,... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Reception room and entrance hall, Golestan... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Nowruz reception, Golestan Palace, Generals... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Nowruz reception, Golestan PAlace. Members... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Tehran. 1958. Nowruz reception, Golestan Palace. Queen... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. 13th day of the Persian New Year, in the hills north... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1956. 13th day of the Persian New Year. Some divert themselves... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. 13th day of the Persian New Year. Dancer.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. 13th day of the Persian New Year. Dancer.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. 13th day of the Persian New Year.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. 13th day of the Persian New Year.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1956. Pepsi-Cola sign.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1956. Visitors to the Pepsi-Cola factory.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1956. Visitors to the Pepsi-Cola factory.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1956. Shop display.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1956. Pepsi-Cola sign.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. Industrial suburbs of Tehran.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. Boy drying hides for a leather factory.

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. Yakh-chal (ice house) in the village of Veramin,... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. Ruins outside Veramin. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Mountain landscape, north of Tehran. 1958. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. Street scene, or the way to Rey. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. Street scene, or the way to Rey. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. White bearded grandfather with a girl of his family.... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. Three girls in a doorway. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Rey. 1958. Industrial quarters. 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Rey. 1956. Two nomadic women walking through the streets.... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. Vanack. 1958. Armenian village of Vanack, north of Tehran,... 

Inge Morath 1956

IRAN. 1958. Village of Vanack. 
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