Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Iranian photographers, Inge Morath, Abbas Kiarostami, Zahra Kazemi, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Shirin Neshat, Bahman Motamedian, Naveed Nour, Antoin Sevruguin, Gilles Peress, Amir Ali Ghassemi, Jahangir Razmi, Shadi Ghadirian, Sadegh Tirafkan, Bruno Barbey, Bahman Jalali, Ali Khan Vali, Nasrollah Kasraian, Ahmad Aali, Mohammadreza Mirzaei, Mitra Tabrizian, Maryam Zandi, Babak Salari, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Morteza Avini, Nikol Faridani, Elisabeth Meyer, Mirza Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi, Ashkan Sahihi, Khan Baba Motazedi, Morteza Poursamadi. Excerpt: Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: Abb s Kiy rostam ; born 22 June 1940) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker Trilogy (1987 94), Taste of Cherry (1997), and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999). Kiarostami has worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and has designed credit titles and publicity material. He is also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. Kiarostami is part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bahram Beizai, and Parviz Kimiavi. The filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. Kiarostami has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of contemporary Iranian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. Kiarostami majored in painting and graphic design at the Tehran University College of Fine ArtsKiarostami was born in Tehran. His first artistic experience was painting, which he continued into his late teens, winning a painting competition at the age of eighteen shortly before he left home to study at the Tehran University School of Fine Arts. There he majored in painting and graphic design, and supported his degree by working as a traffic policeman. As a painter, designer, and illustrator, Kiarostami worked in advertising in the 1960s, designing posters and creating commercials. Be
