Light from the Middle East: New Photography
 

10-12-12 04:13 PM

V&A, London The photograph is sepia. It shows a veiled woman in a 19th-century studio with a backdrop of painted clouds and tasselled curtains. She wears traditional Iranian robes. But she is also wearing Ray-Bans, which she adjusts with a casual hand like some 21st-century starlet advertising shades. It is the very definition of a political gesture. The picture was taken by Shadi Ghadirian ...

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