Ahmad Aali

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Ahmad Aali
Ahmad Aali, 2009
Born	Ahmad Aali 1935 (age 85–86) Tabriz, Iran
Nationality	Iran
Known for	photography
Spouse(s)	Mina Nouri

Ahmad Aali (Persian: احمد عالی‎, (born 1935)^[1] he is an Iranian photographer and artist.

Biography[]

Ahmad Aali was born in 1935 in Tabriz, Iran.^[1][2] In the 1960s, he attended the Kamal-ol-Molk art school in Iran.^[when?] He is married to artist Mina Nouri.^[3]

Ahmad Aali came to Tehran in 1949 and first studied painting and drawing at the Conservatory of Visual Arts and later in the free classes of Kamal Al-Molk Conservatory. After his initial acquaintance with the camera, he gradually became fascinated with it and gradually began to learn technical issues in photography. In the mid-1950s, he became acquainted with world-renowned photographers through foreign photo magazines and was influenced by new ideas. Aali held his first solo exhibition, including photographs with new perspectives and compositions, at the Culture Hall in 1963, and has since held several solo and group exhibitions. Having a close relationship with Iranian modernist painters and sculptors, he took a formalistic and modernist look at his work, emphasizing that photography was not a mere copy of reality. One of the great innovations in Iranian photography is the creation of mosaic combinations of photographs that did not correspond to the classical methods of photography. He exhibited this collection of his works for the first time in 1968 in Seyhoun Gallery. Another part of his works includes documentary photographs, which at the same time have found a general and human face due to repetition and sequence. After the revolution, he spent more time on his painting experiences, which are generally hyper-realistic in nature, and a number of his works were done in the form of paintings on photographs. In 1997, a large number of his photographs were exhibited in the review exhibition of Ahmad Aali's works, and in 2010, 2012 and 2016, he held solo exhibitions of his new and old works.

His work is in numerous public museum collections, such as the British Museum,^[4] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),^[2] among others.

Solo exhibitions[]

This is a select list of solo exhibitions by Aali, in order by date:

• 2010 – Ahmad Aali Selection of Works, 1961–2009, Mah-e Mehr Gallery, Tehran, Iran. This exhibition included 48 years of his photo work in a retrospective.^[5][6][7]
• 2012 Aaran Gallery (Recycle),Tehran, Iran^{[8][better source needed]}
• 2016 Emkan Art Gallery (Ahmad Aali's Self-Portrait with G 11),Tehran, Iran^[9]
• 2018 Azad Art Gallery (Recycled 2), Tehran, Iran

Bibliography[]

As author[]

• Aali, Ahmad (2016). Ahmad Aali, Selection Of Paintings And Photographs 1953–2014. Nazar Publishers. ISBN 978-6001521911.
• Aali, Ahmad (2010). Ahmad Aali, Selection of Works, 1961–2009. Mah-e Mehr Gallery, Shahriyar Tavakoli (introduction), Touraj Hamidian (introduction), Ebrahim Haghighi (introduction). Nazar Research and Cultural Institute. ISBN 978-6005191943.

As subject[]

• A brief review on the creative photography of Iran 40's and 50's Faeghe Shokouh Nikoui (Anita) 2003, Azad University of art and architecture
• History of development of alternative Techniques of photography, Photomontage and photocollage Mehrnegar Fariborz 2001, Azad University of art and architecture
• Life and works of Ahmad Aali by Farhad Ranjbaran, 1998, Azad University of art and architecture

See also[]

• Culture of Iran
• Islamic art
• Iranian art
• List of Iranian artists

References[]

External links[]

• Ahmad Aali, book launch at Mah-e Mehr Art Center (in persian)
• Photo exhibition by Ahmad Aali – Tavoos Art Ezine