Sevruguin and the Persian Image: Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930 (Asian Art & Culture

Asian Art & Culture Series #3

by Frederick N. Bohrer (Editor), Frederick Nathaniel Bohrer (Editor), Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

"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.

Genres: Photography

124 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

Reviews

[Hamideh · Rating 4 out of 5]

a little bit professional for me with zero knowledge of photography!
However, I really enjoyed it, specifically the precise explanation of photos.