This is the audio version of the blog post 'The serene beauty of Robert Byron's Isfahan'. The post was written by Sophie Buckman, who did a student placement with the Courtauld. It was first published on 13 March 2020. The audio version is read by digitisation volunteer Christopher Williams.
In this blog, Sophie is transported to Isfahan by photographs captured by early-twentieth-century travel writer Robert Byron. Byron's photographs which he took to illustrate his 1937 book The Road to Oxiana, are held in the Conway library at the Courtauld. Sophie examines Byron's photographs of the bridges that cross the Zayandehrud river, that speak to historical visions of a king on his throne within the bridge admiring the city, contemporary concerns with water management, and her own experiences of visiting Isfahan in 2017.
You can find the written version on our blog, https://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/03/13/sophie-buckman-the-serene-beauty-of-robert-byron-isfahan/
