PHOTOGRAPHER

Abbas

1944 - 2018

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abbas has received more than 120,265 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Abbas is the 59th most popular photographer (up from 77th in 2019), the 296th most popular biography from Iran and the most popular Iranian Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Abbas ranks 59 out of 148. Before him are Gustav Klutsis, Napoleon Sarony, Inge Morath, Kishin Shinoyama, Étienne Carjat, and William Klein. After him are Boris Mikhailov, Ansel Adams, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Imogen Cunningham, Adolfo Farsari, and Erich Salomon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Abbas ranks 307. Before him are Marilù Tolo, Frank Sinatra Jr., Robert Mueller, Odd Nerdrum, Jiří Holeček, and Karel Kryl. After him are Muhammad Naji al-Otari, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Sharmila Tagore, Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, Haim Saban, and Rebecca Horn. Among people deceased in 2018, Abbas ranks 184. Before him are Vladimir Lyakhov, Tab Hunter, Edgar Hilsenrath, Penny Marshall, Jesús López Cobos, and Zhores Medvedev. After him are Stefán Karl Stefánsson, René Houseman, Luigi Taveri, Gianfranco Parolini, Philip Bosco, and Juraj Herz.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abbas ranks 296 out of 631. Before him are Sadeq Khan Zand (1800), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Mardavij (890), The Iron Sheik (1942), Mehdi Karroubi (1937), and Arash (1977). After him are Mohammad Ali Foroughi (1877), Mithridates V of Parthia (100), Hossein Salami (1960), Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906), Amastrine (-400), and Jafar Khan (1800).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Iran

Among photographers born in Iran, Abbas ranks 1. 

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    Abbas

    1944 - 2018

    HPI: 58.93

    Rank: 1

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