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  • As Seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian Photo Album from the 1930s

  • Afshin Marashi, Dinyar Patel
  • Journal:
    Iranian Studies / Volume 56 / Issue 1 / January 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 January 2023, pp. 101-113
    Print publication:
    January 2023
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  • This photo essay provides a visual archive of Parsi philanthropic efforts toward the Iranian Zoroastrian communities of Yazd, Kerman, and Tehran during the 1930s. The essay reproduces a collection of photographs from a photo album produced by the Iranian Zoroastrian Anjoman (est. 1918) for the benefit of Parsi audiences in Bombay. These photographs were taken and compiled by administrators of the Parsi-funded charities in order to demonstrate to Bombay-based Parsi benefactors how their charity efforts were being used inside Iran. The essay also discusses the importance of including visual archival material as part of the social and cultural history of modern Iran, as well as the unique sets of challenges that such archival preservation represents.

  • 15 - The Photograph as Essay

  • from Part III - Technologies of the Essay
  • Edited by Kara Wittman, Pomona College, California, Evan Kindley, Pomona College, California
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to The Essay
    Published online:
    27 October 2022
    Print publication:
    03 November 2022, pp 229-245

  • Summary

    This chapter meditates on the genre of the photographic essay by considering the author’s own photographic essay on Caribbean culture and family histories. The author proposes that photography enables a different kind of attention, a different kind of knowing, and an attitude toward time that is itself essayistic.