Majid Abbasi‭ (‬born 1965‭)‬

An Exhibition of the Photographs

‭(‬original prints‭) ‬of Sadeq Hedayat‭,‬

Seyhoon Gallery‭ ‬

Tehran‭, ‬October 20‮–‬25‭, ‬2001‭

Offset‭, ‬69x48‭ ‬cm

 

Hedayat‭ (‬1903‮–‬1951‭) ‬was an Iranian writer‭, ‬translator and intellectual‭, ‬and one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their work‭. ‬At the end of 1950‭, ‬Hedayat left Iran for Paris‭. ‬There he committed suicide by gassing himself in a small rented apartment‭. ‬He is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris‭.‬

The exhibition at Seyhoon Gallery

was the first event organized in

Tehran on the occasion of the

centenary of Sadeq Hedayat's

birth‭, ‬and it attracted much public

attention‭. ‬The poster became very

popular‭. ‬Majid Abbasi has used the

poster as the‭ "‬nick image‭" ‬on his

Facebook profile‭.‬