Sevruguin and the Persian image
Subtitle: photographs of Iran, 1870-1930
By: edited by Frederick N. Bohrer.
Contributors: Bohrer, Frederick Nathaniel, 1956-; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Series: Asian art & culture; Asian art & culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; University of Washington Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780295978451
Subjects: Sevruguin, Antoin, -- d. 1933; Photography -- Iran -- History; Iran -- History -- Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925 -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 118) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword -- Milo Cleveland Beach; title: Introduction : photographic perspectives -- Frederick N. Bohrer; title: Chronology, map, print processes --; title: Early photography in Iran and the career of Antoin Sevruguin -- Corien J. M. Vuurman and Theo H. Martens; title: Looking through photographs : Sevruguin and the Persian image -- Frederick N. Bohrer; title: Portfolio of a nation -- Reza Sheikh; title: Sevruguin : orientalist or orienteur? -- Ali Behdad; title: Passages : studio to archive to exhibition-- Julia Ballerini.