Pictures positive despite chaos (jan 1, 1950 – sep 22, 1980)
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The images patiently recorded by Latif Al Ani between the 1950s and the brink of the Iran–Iraq War (the ultimate rupture for the lens of the photographer, who made it his end point and took early retirement), however, depict a sort of break in the storm.
what has been (as beautifully stated by Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida). What has changed between the context of the initial reception of these photographs and their reception today is that they also reveal the power of what could have been.
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remember that before 1958, Al Ani’s images were regularly printed in publications or official brochures aiming to present Iraq in a new light, with a radiant face, confident in its youth and vitality, proud of its educational system and including women in the working world and society.
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