History of Photography in Iran / Antoin Sevrugin

Posted online in the Museum of Asian Art, in Washington DC, a section dedicated to Iran photography history. In the late nineteenth century, Antoin Sevruguin (1840s—1933) managed and operated one of the most successful commercial photography studios in Tehran, Iran. Sevruguin trained to become a painter. Accompanied by his two brothers, in the early 1870s established a photography studio first in Tabriz and then in Tehran. Many of the early portraits of dervishes and women have been simultaneously attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and Dimitri Yermakov, the Georgian photographer who is often referred to as Sevruguin’s mentor. https://asia-archive.si.edu/research/iran-in-photographs/antoin-sevruguin/