Images of Persian, Photigraphs by Laurence Lockhart 1920s-1950s الإنجليزية 2002

This book was inspired by the desire to share with a wider audience the vivid pictorial record of Persia (Iran) that was created by Laurence Lockhart (1890-1975). Best known for his scholarly works on Persian history, Lockhart travelled extensively in Iran, witnessing the rapid changes that were taking place over the half century from the 1920s to the 1970s. He took many photographs of high quality, capturing many aspects of Persian life and culture, but he published only a very few of them, preferring, apparently, to communicate his enthusiasm and deep interest in the country through the written word. Fortunately, however, Lockhart left his photograph albums and negatives, as well as a small personal archive, to the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge. These, together with papers in the archive of his employer, the oil company BP, form the previously untapped primary sources for the essay on Lockhart and the selection of his photographs that are published here for the first time.