Tehran museum’s historic photography collection emerges from the shadows

Western museums have worked hard to secure loans from Iran’s collection of Modern art works, including major pieces by Picasso, Warhol and Pollock that have not been shown outside the country for 40 years.  But the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art also houses a historic photography collection that has been largely overlooked by the media.“It’s extraordinary, about 100 objects,” says Donna Stein, an art historian and curator who worked at the Tehran museum in t