Iran / A Picture Book capitalism restores the stakes of this

restores the stakes of this book and returns to the radical nature of Wang Bing’s cinematographic choices

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and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics

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Looking at landscapes as vessels of collective experiences and memories

Iran / A Picture Book capitalism restores the stakes of thisSince the 1979 revolution, Iran has developed its own image culture, with public space serving primarily as a transit zone and a screen where state sanctioned religious ideology is projected. Pride of place is given to memorials to the first Gulf war (the Iran Iraq War of 198088), which is part of the founding myth of the Islamic Republic. Between 2011 and 2014 Oliver Hartung produced a work on Iran, typological series of images depicting monuments,