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The V&A would like to acquire a set of ten of Golestan’s Polaroids for their collection. We would like to assist in the fundraising efforts to place these works in the V&A’s collection, one of the largest and most important photography collections in the world, and preserve Golestan’s legacy as a historically significant photographer.

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AOTFD regularly collaborates with international art institutions. We have placed artworks in the permanent collections of the following museums:

The British Museum, London | 2017
Hengameh Golestan, Untitled (Witness ‘79 series, 1979).
Three gelatin silver prints.
With support from the Art Fund.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles | 2017
Bahman Mohassess
Five mixed media assemblages, works on paper (2006 – 2010).
With the generous support of Shulamit Nazarian.

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Tate Modern, London | 2016
Kaveh Golestan, Untitled (Prostitute series, 1975-77)
Twenty gelatin silver prints.
AOTFD research, Recreating the Citadel (2010 – 2016)
with the generous support of Dr. Nina Ansary, Kaveh Golestan Estate and Archaeology of the Final Decade.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles | 2016
Kaveh Golestan, Untitled (Az Div o Dad series, 1976)
Ten internal dye diffusion transfer prints. Vintage polaroids. 

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles | 2016
Kaveh Golestan, Untitled (Revolution series 1978-79).
One gelatin silver print.

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Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris | 2015
Kaveh Golestan, Untitled (Prostitute series, 1975-77).
Twelve gelatin silver prints.

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Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. | 2015
Hengameh Golestan, Untitled (Witness ‘79 series, 1979).
Seven gelatin silver prints.

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Tate Modern, London | 2014
Bahman Mohassess, Testa I, II, III, IV, V (1966)
Five gouache works on paper.

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The British Museum, London | 2013
Bahman Mohassess
Ten assemblages, works on paper (1993 – 2009).
With the generous support of Maryam and Edward Eisler.
Untitled, print (1957).
Gifted by Bahman Mohassess Estate.
Untitled, lithograph (1971).
Gifted by Bahman Mohassess Estate.

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The British Museum, London | 2013
Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Who is this Hossein the World is Crazy About (1958)
linocut print on textile.
Funded by CaMMEA with contributions from Brooke Sewell Permanent Fund, Maryam and Edward Eisler and The Farjam Foundation.

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