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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing [Photographs of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Ayatollah Khomeini]

About this Item

Title

  • [Photographs of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Ayatollah Khomeini]

Summary

  • The photographs primarily show the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Images depict street demonstrations and battles, people making sandbag barricades and Molotov cocktails, an attack on the "Asraf Abad" garrison, wounded being evacuated, a trial of members of the Tudeh Party, leftist groups including women training with weapons, and the U.S. Embassy hostages at Christmas, 1979. Images include women and children participating in the street demonstrations. Many images show Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in his home in Neauphle-le-Château, France, enroute by airplane to Iran, at meetings and demonstrations in Tehran and in Qom, and with his family including son Ahmad. Other political and religious leaders shown include Ayatollah Mohammed Beheshti with his family, provisional prime minister Mehdi Bazargan with his cabinet, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharzi, Shapour Bakhtiar, last prime minister of Iran; Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Adi Ghafar , Mohammad Khatami, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Foreign Minister during hostage crisis; Mohsen Rezaee Mirgha'ed (Rezai), commander of the Islamic Republic Corps; Mohammed Sadeq Givi Khalkhali, chief justice of the revolutionary courts; Abū al-Ḥasan Banī Ṣadr, first president of Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Akbar Valayati, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Yasir Arafat, "Red Mullah" Mohammed Mousavi Khoeiniha who planned the takeover of the U.S. embassy. Most of the photographs depict events in Tehran, but Qom, Iran and Neauphle-le-Château, France are also included. Most of the photographs were taken in 1979, one slide is dated 1982.

Names

  • Hatami, 1928-2017, photographer

Created / Published

  • [between 1979 and 1982]

Headings

  • -  Khomeini, Ruhollah--Public appearances
  • -  Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
  • -  Trials--Iran--1970-1990
  • -  Revolutionaries--Iran--Tehran--1970-1990
  • -  Demonstrations--Iran--Tehran--1970-1990
  • -  Hostages--American--Iran--Tehran--1970-1980
  • -  Protest movements--Iran--Tehran--1970-1990
  • -  Campaigns & battles--Iran--Tehran--1970-1990
  • -  Iran--History--Revolution, 1979

Format Headings

  • Color photographs--1970-1990.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1970-1990.
  • Group portraits--1970-1990.
  • Portrait photographs--1970-1990.
  • Slides--Color--1970-1990.

Genre

  • Group portraits--1970-1990
  • Portrait photographs--1970-1990
  • Slides--Color--1970-1990
  • Color photographs--1970-1990
  • Gelatin silver prints--1970-1990

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Collection is arranged into three groups: 1) Color photographs and slides (container 1); 2) black and white photographs and LC-created color surrogates (containers 2 and 3) and 3) book: Iran: To commemorate the 1,400 anniversary of the Hegira of the Prophet of Islam and the first anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, which includes published images of some photographs in this collection (container 4).
  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Item count of photographs includes variants of images which were assigned nos. 31a, 31b, 31c and 32a
  • -  Photographer Sherok (Shahrokh) Hatami was known primarily as "Hatami". (Source: photographer's website: www.shahrokhhatami.com)
  • -  Color photographs are Ektacolor RC.
  • -  A list of Hatami's captions for some photographs is found in Box 2. Other captions are found in the publication: Iran: To commemorate the 1,400 anniversary of the Hegira of the Prophet of Islam and the first anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, which is located in Container 4 of this collection. Other caption information was transcribed from the original folders onto the current folders.
  • -  Captions are in English, French and Persian.
  • -  Three b&w images recieved conservation treatment in 5/5/97.
  • -  Purchase; Sharok Hatami; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:068).

Medium

  • 109 photographs : mostly gelatin silver, some color ; sheet 31 x 41 cm or smaller.
  • 59 photographs : color transparencies ; film width 35 mm (slide format)
  • 1 item : volume with illustrations ; 28 x 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 15042 (H) [P&P]

Repository

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2010649848

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Color photographs and transparencies are stored offsite. Use surrogates provided in the LOT.

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

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  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information see: "Sharok Hatami," https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/434_hata.html
  • Reproduction Number: ---
  • Call Number: LOT 15042 (H) [P&P]
  • Access Advisory: Color photographs and transparencies are stored offsite. Use surrogates provided in the LOT.

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Chicago citation style:

Hatami, photographer. Photographs of the Iranian Revolution ofand the Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran Tehran, None. [Between 1979 and 1982] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010649848/.

APA citation style:

Hatami, photographer. Photographs of the Iranian Revolution ofand the Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran Tehran, None. [Between 1979 and 1982] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010649848/.

MLA citation style:

Hatami, photographer. Photographs of the Iranian Revolution ofand the Ayatollah Khomeini. [Between 1979 and 1982] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2010649848/>.