{"product_id":"9783959050760","title":"Oliver Hartung: Iran: A Picture Book","description":"Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has developed its own image culture, with public space serving primarily as a transit zone and a screen where state-sanctioned religious ideology is projected. Pride of place is given to memorials to the first Gulf war (the Iran-Iraq War of 1980–88), which is part of the founding myth of the Islamic Republic. Between 2011 and 2014 Oliver Hartung produced a work on Iran, typological series of images depicting monuments, murals, architecture, and war cemeteries. In it he creates a portrait of an exceptionally photogenic country that is nevertheless largely unknown in the West: in Damghan a colossal ear of wheat acts as a street lamp and in Isfahan a hand grenade with an Internet symbol suggests the potential risks inherent in the world wide web. The names of the places where the photos were taken are provided in English.","brand":"Red Window Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038849319152,"sku":"9783959050760","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783959050760_p0.jpg?v=1769833577","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783959050760","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}