Antoin Sevruguin’s photos of Persepolis published in book

TEHRAN -- The photos of Persepolis taken by Georgian photographer Antoin Sevruguin (1830-1933) during the 19th century have been published in book form in Iran.

 

The book entitled “Persepolis through the Eyes of Antoin Sevruguin” was compiled by Tahereh Eslami and Dorna Navidguii and published by Shiraz-based Iranian publisher Navid.

 

The book was published with the help of the Parsa and Pasargadae Research Foundation, the director of Navid Publishing, Dariush Navidguii, told the Persian service of IRNA on Saturday.

 

Sevruguin was an official photographer of the Qajar court. His commercial photography studio was one of the most successful in Tehran from the late 1870s to about 1934.

 

He also produced an impressive collection of photographs of Iranian historical and ancient sites.

 

His works were later published in several books, including “Sevruguin’s Iran” and “Sevruguin and the Persian Image: Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930”.

 

Several museums including the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands, hold some his works.

 

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