Time-Life has partnered up with google to make available their photography archive since the 1750’s on Google image search. Most of the images were never published and are now available to the public for the first time. The archive has some amazing images from Iran. Most images have captions describing the image, the photographer and the date the photo was taken. Here are some of the images you will find.
Shah of Iran, Mohamed Reza, posing w. son Prince Reza & wife Farah wearing crown jewels & embroidered robes during coronation
Iranian beggar families lining the long half of an unfinished jail. Tabriz, Iran. March 1951
TIME cover 04-25-1938 ill of Iranian leader Reza Shah Pahlavi.
An Iranian performace of a man wrestling a bear in public.
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on Jun 3rd, 2009 at 8:25 pm
iran has come a long way and our culture must not be forgoten. we are not arabs. we were our selfs before the muslim poison thats distroyed our persian culture and taken our pride. long live the forgoten empire
on Jul 24th, 2009 at 11:23 am
In response to arian - How can something that comes from God be “poison”? So many people like you make the grave mistake of confusing things by seeing everything in the world in merely black and white. Such an approach can be quite dangerous, as we have seen in history! In the 1930’s Europe it was the Jews and their religion that became the scapegoat of fascists. Today it’s Islam and Muslims. To say that Islam is bad just because the “islamic” republic has committed horrific crimes in its name, is the same as blaming all the people who are wearing white shirts just because a man who wore a white shirt is a murderer. Islam, just like anything that is Divine is beautiful. I would never think highly of a person who doesn’t have the decency to at least respect the faith of others. You don’t need to like or agree with Islam - But why insult its followers and devotees?