Abbas photographer biography video

Iranian photographer (1944–2018)

Abbas Attar (Persian: عباس; full name: عباس عطارʿAbbās ʿAṭṭār; 29 March 1944^[1] – 25 April 2018),^[2][3] better known by his mononymAbbas, 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.^[2] 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.^[2][4]

Career

Attar, an Iranian transplanted to Paris, dedicated his photographic work to the political and social coverage of the developing southern nations.

Since 1970, his major works have been published in world magazines and include wars and revolutions in Biafra, Bangladesh, Ulster, Vietnam, the Middle East, Chile, Cuba, and South Africa with an essay on apartheid.^[5]

From 1978 to 1980, he photographed the revolution in I