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I lived in Iran for over a year between 2007 and 2009, filmed and photographing throughout much of the country. I was looking for a place to make the feature documentary film that eventually became Angels Are Made Of Light (set in Kabul, Afghanistan). One of the places I visited in Iran was the historical city of Yazd, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The center of Yazd is filled with a mixture of modern houses and historical structures, some of which have been maintained and some of which have been allowed to slip into picturesque decay. While photographing in the city I came upon this scene of a classic Mercedes, just peeping out from under a tarpaulin like a partially draped classical sculpture, parked in front of a collapsing historical ruin that might have been over a thousand years old. I loved the contrast and the similarities between the dual subject in this frame, the light and the perspective. There is a feeling in this image of the expanse of time and the smallness of human endeavor in the face of historical expanse. I have made this a small edition at this large size. Only 10 signed and numbered prints will be made at the 40 x 29 inch scale. For those who love the image but cannot afford a signed print, I have also made this image available as an open edition print. | The open edition print has a lightly printed grey caption and attribution below the image. The limited edition signed print has no such printed caption and is hand-signed, numbered and captioned. This is a loose, unframed, unmounted print. 40 x 29 inches, which includes a 2-inch white border (3 inches on the bottom edge). The signed limited edition print is rendered on museum quality Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, made by a fine art printer using archival inks in the United States. About the paper: Hahnemühle papers are designed for archival storage are acid-free, which makes them highly resistant to ageing. The paper is also lignin-free, which means it should consist of linters or alpha-cellulose. Lignin-free paper does not yellow.
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2008
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Giclee on Fine Art Paper
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12 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in
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James Longley
United States
From a multiple Oscar-nominated and Sundance award-winning filmmaker who combines fine art sensibility with a passion for communicating the worlds of civilians caught up in conflict, Longley’s film and photography work witnesses places such as Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Through an approach best described as Slow Journalism, Longley creates a big picture view from an intimate perspective. Describing Longley's work in the Los Angeles Times in 2019, film critic Kenneth Turan wrote: "What is life like on the ground for ordinary people in another culture, another world? That’s been the bread and butter of observational documentaries for forever, but almost never is it done with the kind of beauty and grace filmmaker James Longley brings to his Afghanistan-set “Angels Are Made of Light.” As his 2006 Oscar-nominated “Iraq in Fragments” demonstrated, MacArthur Fellow Longley, who serves as his own cinematographer as well as directs, has an almost magical ability to envelope us in other realities. He does it via the poetry of his imagery as well as a gift for focused illumination that creates empathetic portraits of people who are both ordinary and intensely involving." ... In 2009 James was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2011 a USArtists Ford Fellow. These substantial awards helped to create his most recent filmed and photographic work. James has taught master classes at Hong Kong University, Duke University's Center For The Arts, The Goethe Institute in Kigali, and in Zurich for FOCAL. Longley has been nominated for two Academy Awards and won three Jury Awards at Sundance - for Directing, Cinematography, and Editing - among many other heartwarming accolades. 35mm prints of Longley's filmed work can be found in the archives MoMA, The Academy Film Archive, the Duke University Archive, Wesleyan University, The Northwest Film Forum and the Library of Congress. A portion of James' income from the sale of these images goes to support the people he has filmed and worked with the past - particularly in Afghanistan. Please visit James' portfolio site at for more photography and films, and to contact him for custom printing or to commission work.
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