Image Based Research
Enghelab Street, a Revolution through Books: Iran 1979-1983
Co-published by Spector and LE BAL on the occasion of the exhibition Hannah Darabi – Enghelab Street, A Revolution through Books: Iran 1979–1983 (10 January – 11 February 2019, Le BAL – Paris + 1 March – 9 June 2019, FOMU – Antwerp) the publication presents a variety of photographic and propaganda books published between 1979 and 1983—short time period when freedom of speech prevailed at the end of the Shah’s regime – all collected by Iranian artist Hannah Darabi, along with a critical apparatus by Chowra Makaremi.
> Awards
- 2019 Photography Catalogue of the Year award by Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation
- 2019 History Book Award (Prix du Livre Historique 2019), Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles
