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Like an anonymous dark shadow, a well covered Indian woman passes a mural on the wall of a building in Tehran. The mural shows a child mourning a man who was killed while fighting in the Iran/Iraq war
(1980s)

Medium
cibachrome photograph

Measurements
49.5 × 33.2 cm (image and sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Coles Myer Ltd, Governor, 1996
© Michael Coyne

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Tehran, Iran

Inscription
typed on accompanying paper label: MICHAEL COYNE / Like an anonymous dark shadow, a well covered Indian woman passes a mural / on the wall of a building in Tehran. The mural shows a child mourning a man / who was killed while fighting in the Iran/Iraq war.

Accession Number
1996.516

Department
Australian Photography

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Physical description
Series of photographs produced in Iran during the 1980s following the fall of the Shah.