Abbas Attar

<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>RAN. Tehran. Armed militants outside the United States Embassy, where diplomats are held hostage since Nov. 4th, 1979. In the background is a banner with the American Statue of Liberty</i>.</p>
<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>G.B. NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. A wall crumbles down after having been set on fire, presumably by the IRA</i>.</p>
<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>MEXICO. State of Guerrero. Village of San Augustin de Oapan. Man under a table in the desert. 1984</i>.</p>
<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>GB. ENGLAND. Yorkshire. Batley. At the Zakaria Muslim Girls High School, funded by the muslim community, girls in hijab (islamic dress) play touchball. 1989</i>.</p>
<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>MALI. Bamako. At sunrise, a fisherman in his boat on the river Niger. 1994</i>.</p>
<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>MALI. Bakodjikorone. 1994. Children imitating the photographer</i>.</p>
<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>IRAN. Tehran. February 1979. Refa School. A crowd of chador clad women welcome Ayatollah Ruhullah KHOMEINY upon his return from exile</i>.</p>
<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>IRAN. Tehran. 1997. Iranian film director Abbas KIAROSTAMI on the hills surrounding the capital, where his film "Taste of Cherry", which was co-awarded the Golden Palm in Cannes 1997, was shot</i>.</p>
<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>RUSSIA. Moscow. Russian shaman VERA cleanses a patient of evil spirits, by drumming her "dungur", a flat drum. She operates in a small forest set in the capital</i>.</p>
<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>IRAN. Tehran. June 2001. Inside a fashionable coffee house</i>.</p>
<p><b>Abbas Attar</b>, <i>AFGHANISTAN. Herat. Part of the old city dominated by the columns of ancient minarets from a destroyed medersa (Koranic school)</i>.</p>
French
Iran
1944

Photographed the revolution in Iran, as well as other societies in conflict and religious subjects.


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