As the ultimate expression of modernity in the nineteenth century, photography was integral to the introduction of the modern state to Iran. The use of photography as a political tool and as a means ...of recording information during the reign of Nāser-ed-Din Shah Qajar (1848-96) is well documented. Less well known is the popularity of the camera as a shortcut to illusionistic painting and realistic portraiture in the European Academic style. This paper examines the historical context of the introduction of photography; considers patronage, art training and production at the court and the interactions with photography; and reviews evidence for the impact of photography on the development of Iranian art, as evidenced by the career of Mohammad Ghaffāri, Kamāl-ol-Molk (ca. 1848-1940), who is generally considered to be the 'father' of Iranian modernism.
Correspondent Konar has long borders with Pakistan. Most of the border line is inaccessible and leads to inaccessible mountains. There have been armed anti-government insurgents that have conducted ...insurgent activities for the past several years. Konar continues to be targeted by missile attacks from Pakistan. Pakistan says that the attacks are intended to stop attacks from Konar that are going into Pakistan from the province. Now the local officials in this province speak about the presence of the Taleban and control of 10 per cent of the province by the Taleban.
In the beginning, the leadership of Konar Province, the head of the Konar provincial council and a representative of ISAF forces from Kabul spoke about the killing of innocent people in the air ...strike in Chogan village of Shegal District. Konar governor Sayed Fazlollah Wahedi and the head of the Konar provincial council, Meya Hasan Adel, provided information about the casualties and said that four key commanders of armed opponents were killed in the air strike by the international forces, but 14 civilians, including children and women, were also martyred and wounded in the attack. The Konar governor, the head of the state delegation and MP Sakhi Moshwani and Meya Hasan Adel, the head of the Konar provincial council, spoke about the tragedy and presidential advisor Shoja-ul Molk Jalala conveyed President Hamed Karzai's condolences to the families of the martyred and wounded, praying for Allah to bestow paradise upon the martyrs and a speedy recovery upon the wounded.
Correspondent Based on President Hamed Karzai's order, a delegation chaired by the adviser minister, Shoja-ul Molk Jalala, came to Konar Province two days ago to investigate the civilian casualties ...in an operation in Sholtan Valley in Shigal District. The delegation met a deputy governor of Konar, Qazi Mohammad Nabi Ahmadi, the chairman of the provincial council and security officials. Ahmadi and others briefed the delegation members about the civilian casualties. The delegation also visited Shigal District and participated in a gathering of tribal elders. In the gathering, Jalala offered the president's condolences to the families of the martyrs and injured people. Jalala prayed for blessings for the martyrs, rapid recovery for the injured people and patience for the victims' families.
Employing the method of generating functions in conjunction with various number-thoretic identities, we obtain recursion relations for the Kostant partition functions for the affine Kac-Moody ...algebras The partition functions for the higher rank algebras are expressed in terms of SU (2) partition functions. We derive certain number-theoretic identities using the equivalence of our result with the expressions derived by Kac and Peterson.
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