Bahman Jalali

Bahman Jalali ( born 1944 in Tehran, Iran, † January 15, 2010 same place ) was an Iranian photographer and professor of photography.

Life

Jalali studied in the 1960s in his hometown of political science and economics and graduated from the former Melli University, the National University, with a degree in Economics from ( Shahid Beheshti University today). He taught himself photography itself and began in 1972 as a photographer at the Zeitachrift Tamasha. In 1974 he went for two years to the UK to work there. During this time he became a member of the Royal Photographic Society and attended the John Vickers Schoolof Photography in London.

With 31 years Jalali was in Tehran, the head of the photographic department of Saroush Press, the National Iranian Radio and Television and worked there until 1991. During the following years in which he the field of photography taught at the verschiedenysten institutions of Iran, created numerous photo series in which he captured everyday life in his homeland. Famous series are Fishermen from the years 1974-1989, for example Architekturfotagrafien via the port city of Bushehr (1974-1976) or about desert architecture from 1977 until 1991. Much attention was also internationally, given its series with the Islamic Revolution of 1978 and 1979 and the First Gulf War 1980-1988. In the years of 2003-2006 its range of Image Imaginations in which he combined Blumendarstelllungen with old photographs and calligraphy originated.

Jalali was one of the initiators of the first photography museum of Iran in Tehran, the Akskhaneh Shahr. There he worked as a consultant and as a curator of exhibitions. He was also a member of the editorial board of the magazine photo Aksnameh.

2009/2010 Jalali was treated in Germany because of his illness from pancreatic cancer. He returned to Tehran, where he died on January 15, 2010.

Exhibitions

  • 2001: Regards Persians, Paris; A Glimpse of Iran, International Film Festival Thessaloniki
  • 2004: Persian Silver, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  • 2004: Regard sur les femmes d' Iran, European Parliament and City Hall, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2005: Slideshow Image of Imaginations, Art Museum Nantes, France, and in 2006 the 52nd short film days in Oberhausen
  • 2007: Retrospective Bahman Jajali, curated by Catherine David, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; 2009 Camera Austria at the Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
  • 2008: As a Homage to 165 Years of Photography in Iran, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
  • 2011: Retrospective Price Spectrum International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover
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