Walid Siti Arched Tower 2023 Insulation board, plaster of paris, and acrylic H. 360 cm; W. 175 cm; D: 175 cm Courtesy of Walid Siti
Latif Al Ani Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu (Agargouf) as seen from a plane 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00008b
Latif Al Ani Baghdad, Hisham Munir’s Endowment Office 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00145
Latif Al Ani Baghdad, Hisham Munir’s El Rawaf Building 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01216
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh. Plate 53: “Painted Bricks” (Nimroud) 1853 Lithograph H. 38 cm; W. 57 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1853 Folio
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh. Plate 54: “Painted Bricks” (Nimroud) 1853 Lithograph H. 38 cm; W. 57 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1853 Folio
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. The Monuments of Nineveh: From Drawings Made on the Spot. Plate 84: “Painted bricks from the N. W. Palace – Nimroud” 1849 Lithograph H. 38 cm; W. 57 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1849 Folio
Adel Abidin Debris. IMAM – I–XI 2019 Mixed media on fragments of building blocks Various dimensions Courtesy of Galerie Tanit and Adel Abidin
Latif Al Ani Baghdad, Hisham Munir’s Villa 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (5.7 x 5.7 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00253
Latif Al Ani Baghdad, Hisham Munir’s Villa 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (5.7 x 5.7 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00269
Latif Al Ani Baghdad, Hisham Munir’s Villa 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (5.7 x 5.7 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00268
Latif Al Ani Babylon, detail of a mušḫuššu dragon from the Ishtar Gate ca. 1961 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00630
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh. Plate 3: “Human headed Bull & winged figure from a gateway in the wall surrounding Kouyunjik” 1853 Lithograph H. 38 cm; W. 57 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1853 Folio
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. The Monuments of Nineveh: From Drawings Made on the Spot. Plate 3: “A Winged human headed Lion (Nimroud)” 1849 Lithograph H. 38 cm; W. 57 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1849 Folio
Latif Al Ani Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Lamassu reliefs from the palace of Tukulti-Ninurta I 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01133
Latif Al Ani Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Lamassu relief from the palace of Tukulti-Ninurta I 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01132
Latif Al Ani Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Ishtar Gate 1965 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01345
Latif Al Ani Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum, walking lions from the Procession Street of Nebuchadnezzar II 1965 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01348
Hanaa Malallah Dove – Drone Hovering over Babylon Borsippa Twin Towers 2023 Video (sound) Courtesy of Hanaa Malallah
Latif Al Ani Babylon, Babel Films shooting and ad for Arab Tourism in front of the wall of sacred bulls and mušḫuššu dragons at the Ishtar Gate 1961 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00067
Latif Al Ani Babylon, musician playing the rebab in front of the city wall ca. 1961 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00763
Hanaa Malallah Babylon Curse 2023 Video (without sound) Courtesy of Hanaa Malallah
Hanaa Malallah Babylon Curse I 2023 Charcoal, pencil, colored pencil, and acrylic on paper H. 60 cm; W. 42 cm Courtesy of Hanaa Malallah
Hanaa Malallah Babylon Curse II 2023 Charcoal, pencil, colored pencil, and acrylic on paper H. 60 cm; W. 42 cm Courtesy of Hanaa Malallah
Hanaa Malallah Babylon Curse III 2023 Charcoal, pencil, colored pencil, and acrylic on paper H. 60 cm; W. 42 cm Courtesy of Hanaa Malallah
Hanaa Malallah Babylon Curse IV 2023 Charcoal, pencil, colored pencil, and acrylic on paper H. 60 cm; W. 42 cm Hanaa Malallah
James Felix Jones Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan and Turkish Arabia: Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, n.s., no. 63. Map of Nineveh 1857 Hand-colored engraving H. 127 cm; W. 76.2 cm Private collection
James Felix Jones Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan and Turkish Arabia. Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, n.s., no. 63. Map of Nimrud and Selamiyah 1857 Hand-colored engraving H. 127 cm; W. 76.2 cm Private collection
James Felix Jones Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan and Turkish Arabia. Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, n.s., no. 63. Map of Nineveh, the River Tigris, and the Upper Zab 1857 Hand-colored engraving H. 127 cm; W. 76.2 cm Private collection
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh. Plate 1: “The Palaces of Nimrod Restored: From a Sketch by James Ferguson Esq.” 1853 Lithograph H. 39 cm; W. 60 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1853 Folio
Philip Henry Delamotte Mr. Hormuzd Rassam vide Layard’s Nineveah ca. 1854 Reprinted from digital file Swansea Museum Library, Wales SWASM:SM1987.845.79
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. The Monuments of Nineveh: From Drawings Made on the Spot. Plate 2: “Hall in Assyrian Palace restored” 1849 Lithograph H. 38 cm; W. 57 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1849 Folio
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh. Plate 2: “Colossal Lion, Great Entrance (Nimroud)” 1853 Lithograph H. 38 cm; W. 57 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1853 Folio
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh. Plate 5: “Basreliefs at an entrance to a small temple (Nimroud)” 1853 Lithograph H. 38 cm; W. 57 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1853 Folio
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh. Plate 70: “View of the Mounds of Kouyunjik and Nebbi Yunus and of the Remains of the exterior Walls from the North;” “View of the Mounds of Kouyunjik and Nebbi Yunus and of the Remains of the exterior Walls from Mosul” 1853 Lithograph H. 38 cm; W. 57 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1853 Folio
Frederick Charles Cooper Austen Henry Layard. The Monuments of Nineveh: From Drawings Made on the Spot. Plate 98: “Outline of the Mound at Nimroud” 1849 Lithograph H. 38 cm; W. 57 cm ISAW N5380 .L3 1849 Folio
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourists in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00919
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourists in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) with musician playing the rebab 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01178
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourists in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) with musician playing the rebab 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01179
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourists in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00918
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourists in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01181
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourists in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00917
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourists in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01266
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourist in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) with musician playing the rebab 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01177
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) ca. 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00655
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) with musician playing the rebab ca. 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00560
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, aerial view of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00032
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, view of the site ca. 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01595
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) 1965 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00975
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) from a Bedouin tent; a dallah in the foreground 1965 Chromogenic process film negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00980
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourist in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00977
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourist in a Bedouin tent in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) ca. 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01593
Latif Al Ani Ctesiphon, tourist in front of the ruins of the Tāq Kasrā (Arch of Ctesiphon) 1964 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00978
Nadine Hattom Shadows. 1. Dulab 2016 Archival pigment print H. 46 cm; 66 cm Courtesy of Nadine Hattom
Nadine Hattom Shadows. 2. Fallujah 2016 Archival pigment print H. 46 cm; 66 cm Courtesy of Nadine Hattom
Nadine Hattom Shadows. 3. Ramadi 2016 Archival pigment print H. 46 cm; 66 cm Courtesy of Nadine Hattom
Nadine Hattom Shadows. 4. Habbaniyah 2016 Archival pigment print H. 46 cm; 66 cm Courtesy of Nadine Hattom
Nadine Hattom Shadows. 5. Ziggurat 2016 Archival pigment print H. 46 cm; 66 cm Courtesy of Nadine Hattom
Nadine Hattom Shadows. 6. Diyala 2016 Archival pigment print H. 46 cm; 66 cm Courtesy of Nadine Hattom
Nadine Hattom Shadows. 7. Hit 2016 Archival pigment print H. 46 cm; 66 cm Courtesy of Nadine Hattom
Nadine Hattom Shadows. 8. Saqlawiyah 2016 Archival pigment print H. 46 cm; 66 cm Courtesy of Nadine Hattom
Nadine Hattom Shadows. 9. Hatra 2016 Archival pigment print H. 46 cm; 66 cm Courtesy of Nadine Hattom
Nadine Hattom Shadows. 10. Ashur 2016 Archival pigment print H. 46 cm; 66 cm Courtesy of Nadine Hattom
Mahmoud Obaidi Fragments 2015 Weathering steel Dimensions vary Courtesy of Mahmoud Obaidi Obaidi 2015 1/3 + AP
Latif Al Ani Hatra, The Great Iwans ca. 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (3.5 x 2.5 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01784
Latif Al Ani Hatra, The Great Iwans ca. 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (3.5 x 2.5 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01788
Latif Al Ani Hatra, Temple (Iwan) of the sun god Shamash ca. 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (3.5 x 2.5 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01781
Latif Al Ani Hatra, The Great Iwans ca. 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (3.5 x 2.5 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01786
Latif Al Ani Hatra, tourist in front of the statue of Abu Bint Deimun, Wife of Santruq I ca. 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00648
Latif Al Ani Hatra, a group of visitors at the Great Iwans ca. 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (3.5 x 2.5 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01789
Latif Al Ani Hatra, head of statue 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00707
Latif Al Ani Hatra, The Temple (Iwan) of Shamash, mask (architectural decoration) ca. 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (3.5 x 2.5 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01779
Latif Al Ani Hatra, South Iwan (Hall, No. 12), eagle (architectural relief) ca. 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (3.5 x 2.5 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an01776
Latif Al Ani Hatra, Statue of Abu Bint Deimun, Wife of Santruq I ca. 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (8 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00818
Walid Siti Tower Series 2020 Crayon and acrylic on paper H. 210 cm; W. 142 Walid Siti
Walid Siti To the Unknown Architect 2022 Video (sound) Courtesy of Walid Siti
Walid Siti “The Seven Towers” I Series 2013 Graphite, colored crayon, and acrylic wash on paper H. 76.2 cm; W. 55.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Ipeknur and Shwan Ibrahim Taha, 2014 2014.429
Latif Al Ani Samarra, the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque 1959 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00048
Latif Al Ani Samarra, the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00115
Latif Al Ani Baghdad, Umma Park. Khaled al-Rahal’s Motherhood Monument ca. 1960 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00612
Latif Al Ani Baghdad, Jewad Selim’s Freedom Monument at Tahrir Square. 1961 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00047
Latif Al Ani Baghdad, Jewad Selim’s Freedom Monument at Tahrir Square 1961 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00070
Latif Al Ani Baghdad, Arab Biennal. Khaled al-Rahal, Maquette ca. 1971 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00558
Latif Al Ani Baghdad, Jewad Selim’s Freedom Monument at Tahrir Square 1961 Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film (6 x 6 cm) Arab Image Foundation 0190an00044
Photographer Unknown Portrait of Latif Al Ani 1956 Print (12.5 x 10.3 cm) H. 30 cm; W. 11.81 cm Arab Image Foundation 0190an00536 (back cover)
Sahim Omar Kalifa and Jurgen Buedts Latif Al Ani 2010–14 Digital still from Iraq’s Invisible Beauty Jurgen Buedts
Sahim Omar Kalifa and Jurgen Buedts Latif Al Ani 2010–14 Digital still from Iraq’s Invisible Beauty Jurgen Buedts
Sahim Omar Kalifa and Jurgen Buedts Latif Al Ani 2010–14 Digital still from Iraq’s Invisible Beauty Jurgen Buedts