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

"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 Rembrandts 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 photographers life and career."--BOOK JACKET.