Gilles Peress
Victims of Shah and CIA on a signboard at the U. S. Embassy, Tehran

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Artist Gilles Peress (French, born 1946)French, born 1946

CultureFrench

Titles

Victims of Shah and CIA on a signboard at the U. S. Embassy, Tehran
from the series Telex: Iran: In the Name of Revolution

Date1979, printed 1980

PlaceTehran, Iran

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 14 1/8 in. (24.1 × 35.9 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 16 15/16 in. (35.4 × 43 cm)
Frame (outer): 18 5/8 × 22 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (47.2 × 57.4 × 4.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection

Object number91.995

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Optical/Perceptual: Photographs from the Allan Chasanoff Collection," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, October 6, 2008–January 4, 2009.

"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 11, 2012–February 3, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso bottom left in pencil " 13[circled] ", left edge in ink " 165 "

verso bottom right in pencil " Gilles Peress "

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