TEHRAN (Honaronline) - Rare
photographs of Iranian children taken in the early 19th century in Tehran are on display in an exhibition celebrating 180 years of Iranian photographic history.
Axkhaneh Shahr, Iran’s photo museum, is organizing the exhibit entitled ‘’Yesterday’s Children’’.
According to Chahryar Adle, an Iarnian historian who was a professor emeritus of the French National Center for Scientific Research, the first daguerreotype in Iranian was taken by Russian diplomat Nikolai Pavlov about mid-December in 1842, the organizers said in a statement for the exhibit.
Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.
Photos on view at the exhibition have been selected from Axkhaneh Shahr’s archice, according to the organizers, who pointed out, ‘’The images are the first photos depicting the Iranian children of the period.’’
The organizers also expressed their hopes that the relevant officials would agree to register the 25th of Azar on the Iranian calender as Iran’s photographt day.
The exhibition will run until January 26.