2. Director: Aziz Anzabi
Editor and translator :
Asra Yaghoubi
Research: Zohreh Nazari
http://wwww.aziz-anzabi.com
آدماعضاییکپیکرندىبن
کهدرآفرینشزیکگوهرند
دروزگارَچوعضوىبهدردآور
دقرارَندگرعضوهارانما
غمییتوکزمحنتدیگرانب
نشایدکهنامتنهندآدمی
This translation is by H. Vahid
Dastjerdi:
Adam's sons are body limbs, to
say;
For they're created of the
same clay.
Should one organ be troubled
by pain,
Others would suffer severe
strain.
Thou, careless of people's
suffering,
Deserve not the name,
"human being"
1. Parviz Tanavoli
4. Competition
5. Banksy
11. Saddi
18. Shiraz
!9. Immigration
3. Parviz Tanavoli
(born 23 March 1937 in Tehran) is
an Iranian sculptor, painter, scholar
and art collector. He has lived in
Vancouver, Canada since 1989.
Tanavoli's work has been auctioned
around the world leading to overall
sales of over $6.7 million, making
him the most expensive living
Iranian artist.
Academic career
Upon graduating from the Brera
Academy of Milan in 1959,
Tanavoli taught sculpture for three
years at the Minneapolis
College of Art and Design. He then
returned to Iran and assumed the
directorship of the sculpture
department at the University of
Tehran, a position he held for 18
years until 1979, when he retired
from his teaching duties.
Exhibitions
Tanavoli-1974.jpg
Since 1989 Tanavoli has lived and
worked in Vancouver. His latest solo
exhibition was a retrospective held
in 2003 at the Tehran Museum of
Contemporary Art. Prior to that he
had held solo exhibitions in Austria,
Italy, Germany, United States and
Britain. Tanavoli has been in group
exhibitions internationally. His work
has been displayed at the British
Museum, the Grey Art Gallery, New
York University, the Isfahan City
Center, Nelson Rockefeller
Collection, New York, Olympic Park,
Seoul, South Korea, the Royal
Museum of Jordan, the Museum of
Modern Art, Vienna, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, Hamline
University, St. Paul and Shiraz
University, Iran.
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4. Influences
He belongs to Saqqakhana group
of artists who, according to the
scholar Karim Emami, share a
common popular aesthetic.[1] He
has been influenced heavily by his
country's history and culture and
traditions, (he was once cultural
advisor to the Queen of Iran) and
has always been fascinated with
locksmithing.
Politics and art
In 2005, he created a small piece of
sculpture called Heech in a Cage to
protest the conditions of the
American-held prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
and in 2006 began work on his
piece to honour the victims of the
Israeli-Lebanon war.
Bibliography
Tanavoli has written dozens of
publications, dating back over three
decades. Among these are:
The Afshars, London (in press),
Gabbeh: Art Underfoot, Tehran
(2004),
Tribal and Rustic Weaves from
Varamin, Tehran (2003),
Persian Flat-Weaves, London.
(2002),
Horse and Camel Trappings from
Tribal Iran, Tehran (1998)
Sofreh of Kamo, Tehran (1996),
Kings, Heroes and Lovers, London
(1994),
Shahsavan: Iranian Rugs and
Textiles, New York, Switzerland
(1985),
Locks from Iran, Washington DC
(1977).
A video clip about Locks from Iran
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5.
6. 36th Annual College & High School
Photography Contest
Call for Photographers - Deadline:
December 4th, 2015
http://pfmagazine.com/photography-
contest/
Photographer's Forum Magazine
presents the 36th Annual College &
High School Photography Contest, open
to all college and high school
students in the US, Canada, and around
the world. $10,000 in cash grants
awarded!
WINNING PHOTOS will be published in
the May 2016 issue of Photographer’s
Forum Magazine and exhibited at
Brooks Institute. All contest finalists will
be published in the hardcover book Best
of College and High School Photography
2016.
ELIGIBILITY
This contest is open to all college and
high school students in the United
States, Canada, and around the world.
DATES
Early Entry :: October 14, 2015 :: $4.95
Early entry fee is $4.95 per photo
(uploaded or postmarked on or before
October 14, 2015).
Second Deadline :: November 2, 2015 ::
$5.95
Entry fee is $5.95 per photo entered
(uploaded or postmarked on or before
November 2, 2015).
Final Deadline :: December 4, 2015 ::
$6.95
Entry fee is $6.95 per photo entered
(uploaded or postmarked on or before
December 4, 2015).
PRIZES
2 FIRST PLACE GRAND PRIZES
$2,000 Best COLLEGE Color or BW
$2,000 Best HIGH SCHOOL Color or BW
2 SECOND PLACE AWARDS
$1,250 cash grant 2nd Place College
$1,250 cash grant 2nd Place High School
2 THIRD PLACE AWARDS
$500 cash grant 3rd Place College
$500 cash grant 3rd Place High School
10 FOURTH PLACE AWARDS
Five $250 grants to 4th Place College
Five $250 grants to 4th Place High
School
200 HONORABLE MENTIONS
100 College and 100 High School
Honorable Mentions will be listed in the
May 2016 issue of Photographer’s
Forum magazine and will receive a
certificate of outstanding merit from
Photographer's Forum.
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7. Banksy
is an English-based graffiti artist,
political activist and film director
whose real identity is unknown. His
satirical street art and subversive
epigrams combine dark humour
with graffiti executed in a
distinctive stenciling technique. His
works of political and social
commentary have been featured on
streets, walls, and bridges of cities
throughout the world. Banksy's
work grew out of the Bristol
underground scene, which involved
collaborations between artists and
musicians. Observers have noted
that his style is similar to Blek le
Rat, who began to work with
stencils in 1981 in Paris. Banksy
says that he was inspired by "3D",
a graffiti artist who later became a
founding member of Massive
Attack, an English musical group.
Banksy displays his art on publicly
visible surfaces such as walls and
self-built physical prop pieces.
Banksy does not sell photographs
or reproductions of his street
graffiti, but art auctioneers have
been known to attempt to sell his
street art on location and leave the
problem of its removal in the hands
of the winning bidder. Banksy's first
film, Exit Through the Gift Shop,
billed as "the world's first street art
disaster movie", made its debut at
the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
The film was released in the UK on
5 March 2010. In January 2011, he
was nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Documentary for
the film. In 2014, he was awarded
Person of the Year at the 2014
Webby Awards.
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8.
9. Early career (1992–2001)
Banksy started as a freehand
graffiti artist in 1990–1994 as one
of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ),
with Kato and Tes. He was inspired
by local artists and his work was
part of the larger Bristol
underground scene with Nick
Walker, Inkie and 3D. During this
time he met Bristol photographer
Steve Lazarides, who began selling
Banksy's work, later becoming his
agent.From the start Banksy used
stencils as elements of his
freehand pieces, too. By 2000 he
had turned to the art of stencilling
after realising how much less time
it took to complete a work. He
claims he changed to stencilling
while he was hiding from the
police under a rubbish lorry,
when he noticed the stencilled
serial number and by employing
this technique, he soon became
more widely noticed for his art
around Bristol and London.He
played football with the Easton
Cowboys and Cowgirls in the 1990s
and toured with the club to Mexico
in 2001. Banksy's first known large
wall mural was "The Mild Mild
West" painted in 1997 to cover
advertising of a former solicitors'
office on Stokes Croft in Bristol.
It depicts a teddy bear lobbing a
Molotov cocktail at three riot
police.
Stencil on the waterline of The
Thekla, an entertainment boat in
central Bristol – (wider view). The
section of the hull with this picture
has now been removed and is on
display at the M Shed museum. The
image of Death is based on a
nineteenth-century etching
illustrating the pestilence of The
Great Stink.
Banksy's stencils feature striking
and humorous images occasionally
combined with slogans. The
message is usually anti-war, anti-
capitalist or anti-establishment.
Subjects often include rats, apes,
policemen, soldiers, children, and
the elderly.
In July 2011 one of Banksy's early
works, Gorilla in a Pink Mask, which
had been a prominent landmark on
the exterior wall of a former social
club in Eastville for over ten years,
was unwittingly painted over after
the premises became a Muslim
cultural centre
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10. £10 notes to Barely Legal (2004–
2006)
In August 2004, Banksy produced a
quantity of spoof British £10 notes
substituting the picture of the
Queen's head with Diana, Princess
of Wales's head and changing the
text "Bank of England" to "Banksy
of England." Someone threw a
large wad of these into a crowd at
Notting Hill Carnival that year,
which some recipients then tried
to spend in local shops. These
notes were also given with
invitations to a Santa's Ghetto
exhibition by Pictures on Walls. The
individual notes have since been
selling on eBay for about £200
each. A wad of the notes were also
thrown over a fence and into the
crowd near the NME signing tent at
The Reading Festival. A limited run
of 50 signed posters containing ten
uncut notes were also produced
and sold by Pictures on Walls for
£100 each to commemorate the
death of Princess Diana. One of
these
sold in October 2007 at Bonhams
auction house in London for
£24,000.
A stencil of Charles Manson in a
prison suit,
hitchhiking to anywhere, Archway,
London
In August 2005, Banksy, on a trip to
the Palestinian territories, created
nine images on the Israeli West
Bank wall.
Banksy held an exhibition called
Barely Legal, billed as a "three-day
vandalised warehouse
extravaganza" in Los Angeles, on
the weekend of 16 September
2006. The exhibition featured a live
"elephant in a room," painted in a
pink and gold floral wallpaper
pattern, which, according to leaflets
handed out at the exhibition, was
intended to draw attention to the
issue of world poverty. Although
the Animal Services Department
had issued a permit for the
elephant, after complaints from
animal rights activists, the elephant
appeared unpainted on the final
day. Its owners rejected claims of
mistreatment and said that the
elephant had done "many, many
movies. She's used to
makeup."Banksy also made artwork
displaying Queen Victoria as a
lesbian and satirical pieces that
incorporated art made by Andy
Warhol and Leonardo da Vinci 8
11. Dismaland
Dismaland (2015), a "bemusement
park" in Weston-Super-Mare
Banksy opened Dismaland, a large
scale group show lampooning
Disneyland on 21 August 2015. The
"theme park" is located in Weston-
super-Mare, United
Kingdom.According to the
Dismaland website Damien Hirst
will be one of the artists
represented in this show. The artist
Jenny Holzer is also part of the
project.
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12.
13. Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn din
Abdallāh Shīrāzī, Saadi Shirazi or
simply Saadi,
was one of the major Persian poets
and literary men of the medieval
period. He is not only famous in
Persian-speaking countries, but has
been quoted in western sources as
well. He is recognized for the
quality of his writings and for the
depth of his social and moral
thoughts. Saadi is widely
recognized as one of the greatest
poets of the classical literary
tradition.
Biography
Born in Shiraz, Iran, c. 1210, his
father died when he was a child.
He narrates memories of going
out with his father as a child
during festivities.
In his youth, Saadi experienced
poverty and hardship and left his
native town for Baghdad to pursue
a better education. As a young man
he enrolled at the Nizamiyya
University, where he studied in
Islamic sciences, law, governance,
history, Arabic literature, and
Islamic theology.
The unsettled conditions following
the Mongol invasion of Khwarezm
and Iran led him to wander for
thirty years abroad through
Anatolia (where he visited the Port
of Adana and near Konya met ghazi
landlords), Syria (where he
mentions the famine in Damascus),
Egypt (where he describes its
music, bazaars, clerics and elites),
and Iraq (where he visits the port of
Basra and the Tigris river). In his
writings he mentions the qadis,
muftis of Al-Azhar, the grand
bazaar, music and art. At Halab,
Saadi joins a group of Sufis who
had fought arduous battles against
the Crusaders. Saadi was captured
by Crusaders at Acre where he
spent seven years as a slave digging
trenches outside its fortress. He
was later released after the
Mamluks paid ransom for Muslim
prisoners being held in Crusader
dungeons.
Saadi visited Jerusalem and then
set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca
and Medina. It is believed that he
may have also visited Oman and
other lands in the south of the
Arabian Peninsula.
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14. Because of the Mongol invasions
he was forced to live in desolate
areas and met caravans fearing for
their lives on once-lively silk trade
routes. Saadi lived in isolated
refugee camps where he met
bandits, Imams, men who formerly
owned great wealth or
commanded armies, intellectuals,
and ordinary people.
While Mongol and European
sources (such as Marco Polo)
gravitated to the potentates and
courtly life of Ilkhanate rule, Saadi
mingled with the ordinary survivors
of the war-torn region. He sat in
remote tea houses late into the
night and exchanged views with
merchants, farmers, preachers,
wayfarers, thieves, and Sufi
mendicants. For twenty years or
more, he continued the same
schedule of preaching, advising,
and learning, honing his sermons to
reflect the wisdom and foibles of
his people. Saadi's works reflect
upon the lives of ordinary Iranians
suffering displacement, agony and
conflict during the turbulent times
of the Mongol invasion.
Saadi Shirazi is welcomed by a
youth from Kashgar during a forum
in Bukhara.
Saadi mentions honey-gatherers in
Azarbaijan, fearful of Mongol
plunder. He finally returns to Persia
where he meets his childhood
companions in Isfahan and other
cities. At Khorasan Saadi befriends
a Turkic Emir named Tughral. Saadi
joins him and his men on their
journey to Sindh where he meets
Pir Puttur, a follower of the Persian
Sufi grand master Shaikh Usman
Marvandvi (1117–1274).He also
refers in his writings about his
travels with a Turkic Amir named
Tughral in Sindh (Pakistan across
the Indus and Thar), India
(especially Somnath, where he
encounters Brahmans), and Central
Asia (where he meets the survivors
of the Mongol invasion in
Khwarezm). Tughral hires Hindu
sentinels. Tughral later enters
service of the wealthy Delhi
Sultanate, and Saadi is invited to
Delhi and later visits the Vizier of
Gujarat. During his stay in Gujarat,
Saadi learns more about the Hindus
and visits the large temple of
Somnath, from which he flees due
to an unpleasant encounter with
the Brahmans.
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15. Saadi came back to Shiraz before
1257 CE / 655 AH (the year he
finished composition of his Bustan).
Saadi has mourned in his poetry
the fall of Abbasid Caliphate and
Baghdad's destruction by Mongol
invaders led by Hulagu in February
1258.
When he reappeared in his native
Shiraz, he might have been in his
late forties. Shiraz, under Atabak
Abubakr Sa'd ibn Zangy (1231–60),
the Salghurid ruler of Fars, was
enjoying an era of relative
tranquility. Saadi was not only
welcomed to the city but was
shown great respect by the ruler
and held to be among the greats
of the province. In response,
Saadi took his nom de plume from
the name of the local prince, Sa'd
ibn Zangi. Some of Saadi's most
famous panegyrics were
composed as a gesture of
gratitude in praise of the ruling
house and placed at the beginning
of his Bustan. The remainder of
Saadi's life seems to have been
spent in Shiraz.
Works
Main articles: Bustan and Gulistan
The first page of Bustan, from a
Mughal manuscript.
His best known works are Bustan
(The Orchard) completed in 1257
and Gulistan (The Rose Garden) in
1258.[6] Bostan is entirely in verse
(epic metre). It consists of stories
aptly illustrating the standard
virtues recommended to Muslims
(justice, liberality, modesty,
contentment) and reflections on
the behavior of dervishes and their
ecstatic practices. Gulistan is mainly
in prose and contains stories and
personal anecdotes. The text is
interspersed with a variety of short
poems which contain aphorisms,
advice, and humorous reflections,
demonstrating Saadi's profound
awareness of the absurdity of
human existence. The fate of those
who depend on the changeable
moods of kings is contrasted with
the freedom of the dervishes.
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16. Regarding the importance of
professions Saadi writes:
O darlings of your fathers,
learn the trade because property
and riches of the world are not to
be relied upon; also silver and gold
are an occasion of danger because
either a thief may steal them at
once or the owner spend them
gradually; but a profession is a
living fountain and permanent
wealth; and although a
professional man may lose riches,
it does not matter because a
profession is
itself wealth and wherever you go
you will enjoy respect and sit on
high places, whereas those who
have no trade will glean crumbs
and see hardships.
Saadi is also remembered as a
panegyrist and lyricist, the author
of a number of odes portraying
human experience, and also of
particular odes such as the lament
on the fall of Baghdad after the
Mongol invasion in 1258. His lyrics
are found in Ghazaliyat (Lyrics) and
his odes in Qasa'id (Odes). He is
also known for a number of works
in Arabic.
In the Bustan, Saadi writes of
a man who relates his time in battle
with the Mongols:
In Isfahan I had a friend who was
warlike, spirited, and
shrewd....after long I met him: "O
tiger-seizer!" I exclaimed, "what has
made thee decrepit like an old
fox?"
He laughed and said: "Since the
days of war against the Mongols, I
have expelled the thoughts of
fighting from my head. Then did I
see the earth arrayed with spears
like a forest of reeds. I raised like
smoke the dust of conflict; but
when Fortune does not favour, of
what avail is fury? I am one who, in
combat, could take with a spear a
ring from the palm of the hand;
but, as my star did not befriend me,
they encircled me as with a ring. I
seized the opportunity of flight, for
only a fool strives with Fate. How
could my helmet and cuirass aid me
when my bright star favoured me
not? When the key of victory is not
in the hand, no one can break open
the door of conquest with his arms.
The enemy were a pack of
leopards, and as strong as
elephants. The heads of the heroes
were encased in iron, as were also
the hoofs of the horses.
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17. We urged on our Arab steeds like a
cloud, and when the two armies
encountered each other thou
wouldst have said they had struck
the sky down to the earth. From
the raining of arrows, that
descended like hail, the storm of
death arose in every corner. Not
one of our troops came out of the
battle but his cuirass was soaked
with blood. Not that our swords
were blunt—it was the vengeance
of stars of ill fortune. Overpowered,
we surrendered, like a fish which,
though protected by scales, is
caught by the hook in the bait.
Since Fortune averted her face,
useless was our shield against the
arrows of Fate.
Bani Adam
A copy of Saadi Shirazi's works by
the Bosniak scholar Safvet beg
Bašagić (1870–1934)
Saadi is well known for his
aphorisms, the most famous of
which, Bani Adam, is part of the
Gulistan. In a delicate way it calls
for breaking down all barriers
between human beings:
آدماعضاییکپیکرندىبن
کهدرآفرینشزیکگوهرند
دروزگارَچوعضوىبهدردآور
دقرارَندگرعضوهارانما
غمییتوکزمحنتدیگرانب
نشایدکهنامتنهندآدمی
This translation is by H. Vahid
Dastjerdi:
Adam's sons are body limbs, to say;
For they're created of the same
clay.
Should one organ be troubled by
pain,
Others would suffer severe strain.
Thou, careless of people's suffering,
Deserve not the name, "human
being"
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20. Shiraz is the sixth most populous
city of Iran and the capital of Fars
Province
In 2009, the population of the city
was 1,455,073. Shiraz is located in
the southwest of Iran on the
Roodkhaneye Khoshk (Dry River)
seasonal river. It has a moderate
climate and has been a regional
trade center for over a thousand
years. It is regarded as one of the
oldest cities of ancient Persia.
The earliest reference to the city, as
Tiraziš, is on Elamite clay tablets
dated to 2000 BC.In the 13th
century, Shiraz became a leading
center of the arts and letters, due
to the encouragement of its ruler
and the presence of many Persian
scholars and artists. It was the
capital of Persia during the Zand
dynasty from 1750 until 1781, as
well as briefly during the Saffarid
period. Two famous poets of Iran,
Hafez and Saadi, are from Shiraz.
Shiraz is known as the city of poets,
literature, wine and flowers. It is
also considered by many Iranians to
be the city of gardens, due to the
many gardens and fruit trees that
can be seen in the city. Shiraz has
had major Jewish and Christian
communities. The crafts of Shiraz
consist of inlaid mosaic work of
triangular design; silver-ware; pile
carpet-weaving and weaving of
kilim, called gilim and jajim in the
villages and among the tribes. In
Shiraz industries such as cement
production, sugar, fertilizers, textile
products, wood products,
metalwork and rugs dominate.
Shirāz also has a major oil refinery
and is also a major center for Iran's
electronic industries: 53% of Iran's
electronic investment has been
centered in Shiraz. Shiraz is home
to Iran's first solar power plant.
Recently the city's first wind
turbine has been installed above
Babakoohi mountain near the city.
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