Archives pour juin, 2009
For the summer, there will be retrospectives posted. It could be either pictures, videos, reports, press reviews, exhibitions in various domains and about various people (royals, past weddings, leading public figures like Jackie O. Kennedy etc.) .
So enjoy. Here is the first set.
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Curator, restorer, landowner, patron of the arts, or even writer… Nowadays, they manage and restore ten or so historical buildings. Their mission is to support and keep alive an exceptional heritage, largely unknown : they are the protectors of european palaces. Bertrand du Vignaud, historian of arts, has founded in 1965 a private philanthropic foundation based in New York, the World Monuments Funds, in order to preserve and maintain the most treasured architectural and cultural sites on Earth. Since its creation, the fondation has financed around the globe more than 450 sites in 90 countries.
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Among them, three sites in Europe going under the different processes of restoration are illustrated into this documentary.
Official State portrait of the Empress Farah Pahlavi taken in May 30, 1972 during the visit of the American President Richard Nixon in Iran. (Image scanned from the book "Memoires van een keizerin").
In the light of the political and social events happening in Iran, here is a documentary filmed by a french tv channel, France 3, where the former Empress of Iran talks about the history of her country and her own history (of course from her own perspective and point of view).