At the Sackler Gallery, a rarely seen view of Iran by six women photographers
“Somayeh,” from “Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album” by Newsha Tavakolian. (Newsha Tavakolian/Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery)/ Forty years after the Iranian Revolution, U.S. media coverage of Iran is still so overwhelmingly focused on the country’s fraught relationship with the United States that certain images have become tropes. Stock photographs of chador-clad women; shown in profile, their faces almost invisible as they walk past anti-American street murals, are A new exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, ...
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