PERESS, Gilles. Telex Iran: In The Name of Revolution, New York: Aperture, 1983. Softcover, 15 x 10- inches, 102 pages, duotone illustrations. Comprises photographs that French photographer Peress made in 1979, during Iran's turbulent Islamic Revolution, when American hostages were snatched from the country's embassy. Countering the routine photojournalistic conceit of presenting an objective view of his subject, he instead pursued a highly personal approach. Many of his resulting images are fragmented and disorienting, like the one on the cover of the book that is presented as a bleed image across front, spine, and back. Inside, telex communications between Peress and his agency are interspersed among the images. Texts by Claude Nori and Gholam-Hossein Sadei, in French. This is one of the most important photography books from the late twentieth century and is included in Parr and Badger's The Photobook: A History. Notoriously fragile, due to its size and being issued only in soft. The cover has edgewear and is separated from the body of signatures.

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