Antoin Sevruguin and the Qajar Dynasty

Antoin Sevruguin

 Antoin Sevruguin was a photographer in Iran during the Qajar Dynasty. Many contemporary Middle East photography fans will be familiar with this 1795 - 1925 dynasty through Shadi Ghadirian's reference of the period in her Qajar series which GMEP wrote about HERE.

Sevruguin ran one of Tehran's most successful photo studios for about 65 years, ending at his death in 1933. The decades the photographer was producing images cover the latter part of Qajar dynasty and the early Pahlavi Dynasty.

Though also a photographer for the Imperial Court of Iran, Sevruguin's work covered a wide range of subjects from portraits of blind men and beggars to wealthy upper class citizens as well as landscape and social-documentary images.

The images shown here (via Iran.com  and the National Museum of Ethnology, Netherlands) are from the book Sevruguin and the Persian Image: Photographs of Iran, 1870 - 1930. For more images see HERE and for biographical information on the photographer see HERE. There is a podcast on Sevruguin and 19th century Iranian photography HERE.

Antoin Sevruguin

 

 

 

Antoin Sevruguin

Antoin Sevruguin