Denver: Photo exhibit on Iran being set up in Civic Center

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Photo exhibit on Iran being set up in Civic Center
By Tillie Fong, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Originally published 05:09 a.m., August 25, 2008
Updated 09:01 a.m., August 25, 2008
Lighting designer Chris Krueger, of Crested Butte, checks out "Pictures of You: Images From Iran," a traveling multimedia installation by Thomas K. Loughlin that spans the bridge between photojournalism and fine art. The show features portraits of Iranians printed on translucent chiffon silk. Chris and the rest of the team worked through the night to get the project up and running in Civic Center Park for the expected crowds on Monday. The exhibit will stay up until Tuesday.

Photo by Judy DeHaas

Lighting designer Chris Krueger, of Crested Butte, checks out "Pictures of You: Images From Iran," a traveling multimedia installation by Thomas K. Loughlin that spans the bridge between photojournalism and fine art. The show features portraits of Iranians printed on translucent chiffon silk. Chris and the rest of the team worked through the night to get the project up and running in Civic Center Park for the expected crowds on Monday. The exhibit will stay up until Tuesday.
A photo exhibit on Iran is put together at Civic Center.

Photo by Tillie Fong, the Rocky

A photo exhibit on Iran is put together at Civic Center.

CIVIC CENTER - A work crew has been working through the night to set up a photo exhibit on Iran.

"We get 48 hours in the park for the project," said Tom Loughlin, a Crested Butte artist, who was overseeing the installation.

Dubbed "Pictures of you: Images of Iran" the photos are printed on large sheets of fabric, which are then stretched over a metal framework of a Persian home, with an octagonal room as the centerpiece.

"The 8-sided room is where an Iranian family would welcome visitors," said Loughlin. "So we want to welcome people into the exhibit."

The roof is made of photos of the ceiling of a mosque in Isfahan, Iran. The walls of the rest of the structure will be photos of people. A speaker system will also broadcast sounds Loughlin recorded while in Iran.

"You'll hear kids playing in the street, but they're speaking Farsi," he said.

Loughlin went to Iran three times in the past three years to photograph ordinary people in Iran, going about their daily lives.

"I wanted to show that we're all human beings, we're all made of flesh," he said. "I think that gets lost in all the politics."

He plans to hang life-size portraits from wires stretched across the two "halls" of the building.

"That way, people will meet Iranians face to face," said Loughlin.

He decided to have the world premiere of the exhibit this week during the Democratic National Convention.

"We're making an important decision in November," he said. " (Barack) Obama said he would be willing to sit down with the Iranians and talk, but (John) McCain thinks it's OK to bomb Iran. I think people should learn more about Iran in order to make a good decision."

The exhibit will be up until 11 p.m. Tuesday. Loughlin plans to tour the country with the exhibit, but said he will have to do some fundraising first.

"We're not going to be exhibiting in art galleries," he said. "We're more likely to be at state fairs."

[Kate Shaw]

"You'll hear kids playing in the street, but they're speaking Farsi," he said.

I don't have to go to Iran to hear that; I can just get off the subway at Victoria Park station in Toronto.

P.S. I am sure that if this nitwit went to Germany in 1937, he would have found plenty of reasons why Warmonger Churchill et al. should be ridiculed for wanting to bomb Germany. Naturally he would not have interviewed any Jews.

[Fabulous Fred]

I'll wager they don't have photos of teenage rape victims being hanged from the boom of mobile cranes, stonings, beheadings and amputations that form a part of normal life in Iran.

Iran is second only to China for executions of it's citizens each year.

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Loughlin went to Iran three times in the past three years to photograph ordinary people in Iran, going about their daily lives.

"I wanted to show that we're all human beings, we're all made of flesh," he said. "I think that gets lost in all the politics."

He plans to hang life-size portraits from wires stretched across the two "halls" of the building.

"That way, people will meet Iranians face to face," said Loughlin.

That mindset is going to destroy America eventually. Libs just don't get it. They never will. They live in utopia and have a dream of how "wonderful" the world could be.

Instead of pointing out the problems a ruthless and archaic fascist state presents for the citizens of that country and the world, they go around documenting that the citizens of Iran in this case are living "normal" lives.

What the heck are they supposed to live? They are scared shitless to talk openly about their effed up lives.

Kids will play soccer in the streets of Tehran as much as Los Angeles. Kids will always be playful unless the bombs start dropping around them and even then, it takes the parents to make sure the kids are sheltered.

That's the problem with the Libs. They see the world through kids eyes and even fail to run for cover when the bombs are falling around them.

He decided to have the world premiere of the exhibit this week during the Democratic National Convention.

"We're making an important decision in November," he said. " (Barack) Obama said he would be willing to sit down with the Iranians and talk, but (John) McCain thinks it's OK to bomb Iran. I think people should learn more about Iran in order to make a good decision."

First of all, Obama will say anything to anybody. Obama never has sat with evil leaders who don't just talk evil, they mean evil. Obama doesn't have a clue about what evil can do. He's a stupid liberal who thinks he can change the world because he is who he is. His wife is just as stupid for believing the same and supporting her husband in the utopia.

Nothing special about the Obamas. Just another case of liberal elitism.

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Zombie: The Mosque in Denver's Civic Center

Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:26:01 pm PST

I first arrived in Denver's Civic Center Park expecting to see hordes of anarchists and protesters. Instead, I was confronted with...

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...this huge mosque made of translucent fabric.

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It was put together by a group called "Pictures of You," which is (according to its flier) part of The Manjushri Project.

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The mosque is composed of photographic portraits of Iranians which can be viewed from either side. For some reason, a preponderance of the portraits depicted attractive young Iranian women. I wonder why.

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"Pictures of You" handed out fliers with a quote by the Sufi poet Rumi, whom they said was their inspiration. The lines in Rumi's poem are addressed to "you," and the Manjushri Project folks want us to believe that "you" means the reader, but of course Rumi was actually addressing God. But in this "it's all about me!" modern world we inhabit, the marketing team (correctly) calculated that Americans would think Rumi was addressing them personally.

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The purpose of the exhibit was "transparently" to arouse sympathy for the Iranian people and discourage any US military action aimed at stopping the Iranian government from getting a nuclear bomb. Or so it seemed to me.

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And it's a great bonus to have an excuse to plop a big mosque in the center of Denver, temporary though it might be.