Sevruguin and The Persian Image: Photographs of Iran 1870-1930

Bohrer, Frederick N.

Washington, DC: Sackler Gallery, 1999. Softcover. Wraps. 124 pp. About 65 bw images and illustrations. VG+ near pristine. Item #21468
ISBN: 9780295978451

"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. "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. Contents as follows: Foreword /; Milo Cleveland Beach --; Introduction : photographic perspectives /; Frederick N. Bohrer --; Chronology, map, print processes --; Early photography in Iran and the career of Antoin Sevruguin /; Corien J.M. Vuurman and Theo H. Martens --; Looking through photographs : Sevruguin and the Persian image /; Frederick N. Bohrer --; Portfolio of a nation /; Reza Sheikh --; Sevruguin : orientalist or orienteur? /; Ali Behdad --; Passages : studio to archive to exhibition /; Julia Ballerini.