A picture of an Austrian photographer in Qom; A moment before entering the shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh (PBUH)

A black and white picture of “Inge Murat”, a photographer from Austria and the wife of “Arthur Miller”, who took pictures of this city during a trip to Iran and the city of Qom in 1956. It seems that this photo is of him before he appeared to enter the shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh (PBUH).

Murat was one of the first female photographers of the famous “Magnum” agency; In the pictures he recorded from Iran, he tries to record daily life, real faces of people and human details. It was important for him to see and photograph a country with an ancient civilization; Iran was modernizing at that time; But the ancient color and smell is still visible everywhere.