Kaveh Golestan was born in Abadan on July 8, 1950. He was a year old when his family moved to Tehran where he attended primary school. When he was thirteen, he left Iran for boarding school in England , and returned to Tehran after completing his studies in 1969.
He worked as a photographer and animator for various commercial companies in Iran between 1970-72. However, he began his professional career as a photojournalist in 1972 with his first freelance assignment, which he proposed: a photo essay about the paramilitary conflict in Northern Ireland for the daily newspaper Kayhan. During the next few years he worked for an international company Franklin Publications, which produced school textbooks for Iranian children. Kaveh provided the company with photos of children from all over the country so it could see who was reading its books.
Le Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris présente UNEDITED HISTORY, Iran 1960-2014. Composée de plus de 200 œuvres pour la plupart inédites en France, l’exposition offre un nouveau regard sur l’art et la culture visuelle en Iran des années 1960 à aujourd’hui. L’exposition interroge l’histoire contemporaine de ce pays sous forme de séquences : les années 1960-1970, l’époque de la révolution de 1979 et la guerre Iran-Irak (1980-1988), puis de l’après-guerre à aujourd’hui.
L’exposition rassemble une vingtaine d’artistes issus des années 1960-1970 ainsi que de la plus jeune génération. Elle met en perspective les médiums de la peintur...
Kaveh Golestan (1950-2003) was an important and prolific Iranian documentary photographer and a pioneer of street photography. His photographic practice has hugely informed the work of future generations of Iranian artists but has remained seriously over-looked in Europe. Kaveh Golestan - The Citadel presents 45 vintage photographs from the series entitled Prostitute taken between 1975-1977 of women working in the Citadel of Shahr-e No, the red light district of Teheran. The photographs will be exhibited for the first time as a vintage set since 1978. Alongside the photographs, the exhibition will include original diaries of Golestan, newspaper clippings and audio interviews that he collected from and relating to the area.
The Citadel
Shahr-e No (literally translated as 'New City') was an old walled neig...