Mira Xenia Schwerda: “May a Revolutionary be a Dandy? The Photographing of Revolutionary Heroes in Early Twentieth-Century Iran”

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During the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911), Iran’s first revolution, both men and women took to the streets to voice their dissatisfaction with the existing autocratic regime. These protests and the connected revolutionary movement critically impacted the making of modern Iran as a nation state. Photography, which had...