Author | Gilles Peress |
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Pages | 101 |
Signed | No |
ISBN | 2859490558 |
Publisher | Contrejour |
Publishing date | 1984 |
Publishing place | Paris |
Language | English |
Edition | first edition |
Binding | Softcover |
Book condition | Collectible; Very Good |
Condition description | Only minor shelf wear; good bindign; clean very nice copy of the true first edition |
Dimensions (cm hxb) | 270 x 385 x 18 |
"Telex Iran" is an extraordinarily personal document of a public event. The photographs Gilles Peress took over a five-week period during 1979-1980 focus on the seizure of the American embassy and a number of hostages in Teheran by student proxy groups of the new Iranian regime. However, the book forms neither a study nor an analysis of that singular event. Peress' photographs do not purport to tell the story - any story - but are the nearly seismographic record of the photojournalist's perceptions, encounters, and not least, his emotions as he moves through the city and the countryside of a nation in upheaval. Involved one day, alienated the next; insightful in Tabriz, at sea in Qom; attracted to one subject, repelled by another, "Telex Iran" beats out the raw rhythms of Iran's dislocations, both historical and individual.
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Telex Persan
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this exceptionally designed book established Gilles Peress' reputation as a photojournalist. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including the Aperture Edition, which is based on it. The edition is now rare. A stupendous production by Gilles Peress and Claude Nori.
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