An anonymous hacker has leaked thousands of photos showing what Iran was like under the Qajar dynasty in the 19th century.
that the photographs come from the archive of Tehran’s Golestan Palace with Iranian authorities apparently unhappy about the leak.with the valuable archive was uploaded online allowing Iranians and global citizens a peek at what the country was like in the 19th-century when it was still widely known as Persia.that the authorities in Iran make it difficult for general members of the public to access these photos.
“In all countries, publishing a museum’s treasure without permission is criminal in nature,” says Hadi Mirzaeri, the director general of the museums of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.reports that Golestan Palace management announced that it would be publishing the photographs themselves imminently.One of the Iranian Shahs, Naser al-Din, of the Qajar Dynasty was a patron of photography and many of the images in the archive feature him and were possibly shot by him as well.
Naser al-Din Shah reigned from 1848 until his assassination in 1896; a crucial period in the history of photography. He set up a photography studio and would often take the portraits of members of his court. The shah also traveled extensively — taking photographs of Tbilisi and Istanbul.Naser al-Din’s wife Anisodoleh. The Shah is likely to have taken this photo.
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