Sevruguin and the Persian Image
Subtitle: Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930 (Asian Art & Culture (Unnumbered).)
Contributors: Frederick Nathaniel Bohrer (Editor)
Publisher: University of Washington Press; Arthur M. Sackler G/University of Washington Press
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780295978451
Subjects: Asian studies; Individual photographers; Photographs: collections; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Documentary Photo Collections; Photo Essays; Iran; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Middle East - Iran; Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Asia; Essays; History; Photography; Pictorial works; Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925; Sevruguin, Antoin,; d. 1933
Description: "Antoin Sevruguin (late 1830s-1933) was a celebrated photographer of late-nineteenth-century Iran. Sevruguin had two lifelong obsessions. The first was a cherished desire to record Iran in all its facets on glass plates; the second was to capture light in his photographs the way he so admired in Rembrandt's paintings."--BOOK JACKET.

"In addition to his numerous pictures of urban life and portraits made in his famous studio in Tehran, Sevruguin made a photographic inventory of the landscape, archaeological sites, and people of Azarbaijan and continued the project in Kurdistan and Luristan (in southwestern Iran)."--BOOK JACKET. "In this generously illustrated book, the first ever devoted to Sevruguin and his singular work, six distinguished authors explore the photographer's life and career."--BOOK JACKET.