Patrick Chauvel
Iranian Revolution. General Taghi Latifi is pulled from his car on Esfand Square and lynched by a mob, Tehran, Iran.

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Iranian Revolution. General Taghi Latifi is pulled from his car on Esfand Square and lynched by a mob, Tehran, Iran.
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ArtistFrench, born 1949
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Iranian Revolution. General Taghi Latifi is pulled from his car on Esfand Square and lynched by a mob, Tehran, Iran.
DateJanuary 29, 1979, printed 2012
Place depictedTehran, Iran
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 17 3/16 × 26 in. (43.7 × 66 cm)
 Sheet: 21 1/4 × 30 1/16 in. (54 × 76.3 cm)
 Frame (outer): 26 7/8 × 34 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (68.3 × 88.6 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation
Object number2012.64
Not on view

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Provenance[Valérie-Anne Giscard d'Estaing, Paris]; purchased by MFAH, 2012.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.

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