Swimming in the 'tank,' summer garden, Golhek [modern caption]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Snapshot of Mrs Alice Cooper swimming in the pool in the garden of the Indo-European Telegraph Company bungalow at Gulhek, north of Tehran. Also captioned on back of print: 'Grandma Cooper.'
Mrs Cooper and friends go into the mountains for a picnic, 1912. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Snapshot group of Europeans with ponies on a mountain track in the Elburz Mountains. With pencilled note on back of print: 'Kolakchal 11/8/12.' Mount Kolakchal in just north of Tehran.
[Snapshot of European couple beside a stone cairn, Elburz Mountains, Tehran.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Probably taken on the same occasion as print 320 (i.e, on Mount Kolakchal, north of Tehran). The figure on the left is Alice Cooper.
Arthur Koestler, 1978, UK novelist, philosopher. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Portrait Photography Close-up of Koestler sitting at a chess table with bookcases running along the length of the wall behind; he looks straight at the camera.
Arthur Koestler, 1978, UK novelist, philosopher. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Portrait Photography Koestler sits at an angle behind a chess table, which also has his glasses and an ashtray on top. In the background are several books in cases and piled up on tables.
Salman Rushdie, 1986, at home in London, while writing The satanic verses for which he was condemned by Fatwa only a few months later. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Portrait Photography Rushdie stands by a window with his arms folded across his chest. Behind him, there is a chest of drawers with a chess board on top and a hand-held Indian fan fixed to the wall.