Sevruguin and the Persian image :
photographs of Iran, 1870-1930 /
edited by Frederick N. Bohrer
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; ©1999
- Subjects
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Sevruguin, Antoin,
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Sevruguin, Antoin, /
1851-1933
Sevruguin, Antoin,
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Sevruguin, Antoin, /
1851-1933
Photography.
Photography
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Photography /
Iran
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Photography / Iran /
History
Iran.
Iran
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Iran /
History
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Iran / History /
Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925
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Iran / History / Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925 /
Pictorial works
Bildband.
Pictorial works.
History.
- Summary
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"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."--Jacket
"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)."--Jacket
- Physical Description
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124 pages :
illustrations, color map ;
29 cm
- ISBN
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9780295978451
0295978457
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