Title & Author:

Sevruguin and the Persian image : photographs of Iran, 1870-1930 / edited by Frederick N. Bohrer.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©1999.

Description:

124 pages : illustrations, color map ; 29 cm.

Series:

Asian art & culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 118) and index.
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.

Summary:

"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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0295978457 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780295978451 (paper ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sevruguin, Antoin, 1851-1933.
Sevruguin, Antoin, d. 1933.
Kadscharen Dynastie : 1794-1925
Sevruguin, Antoin 1851-1933
Sevruguin, Antoin, ca1840-1933.
Sevruguin, Antoin.
Kadjaren.
Photography Iran History.
Photographie Iran Histoire.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Photography
Bildband
Fotografie
Foto's.
Iran History Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925 Pictorial works.
Iran Histoire 1794-1925 Dynastie Qajar Ouvrages illustrés.
Iran Histoire 1794-1925 (Dynastie des Qādjārs) Ouvrages illustrés.
Iran
1870-1930

Form/genre:

Bildband.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Exhibitions (form)
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Bohrer, Frederick Nathaniel, 1956- editor.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Asian art & culture (Unnumbered)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213096
Call No.: TR140.S511 S4 1999
Status: Available