The Most Famous
PHOTOGRAPHERS from Iran
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 105 Photographers, 1 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 20th most number of Photographers behind Turkey and Sweden.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iranian Photographers of all time. This list of famous Iranian Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Abbas (1944 - 2018)
With an HPI of 49.60, Abbas is the most famous Iranian Photographer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Abbas Attar (Persian: عباس; full name: عباس عطار ʿAbbās ʿAṭṭār; 29 March 1944 – 25 April 2018), better known by his mononym Abbas, was an Iranian photographer known for his photojournalism in Biafra, Vietnam and South Africa in the 1970s, and for his extensive essays on religions in later years. He was a member of Sipa Press from 1971 to 1973, a member of Gamma from 1974 to 1980, and joined Magnum Photos in 1981.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as photographers born between 1944 and 1944. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased photographers include Abbas.
