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Sevruguin's Iran: Late Nineteenth Century Photographs of Iran from the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands, edited by L.A. Fereydoun Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn and Gillian M. Vogelsang-Eastwood, Tehran/Rotterdam: Zaman, Barjesteh, 1999, ISBN 964–90999–9–9, 174 pages. - Qajar Era Photographs: with the Curator's Choice of Photographs from Qajar Era Photography Collections in the Netherlands, edited by L.A. Fereydoun Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn, editor-in-chief, and Sahar Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn-Khosravani, Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar et al, Volume 1 of the Journal of the International Qajar Studies Association, Rotterdam/Santa Barbara/Tehran, 2001, ISBN 90–5613–059–5, 71 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Kambiz Eslami*
Affiliation:
Princeton University Library

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Copyright © The Society for Iranian Studies 2003

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References

1. References to Sevruguin's antique collecting endeavors can be found in a series of communications between the French Embassy in Tehran and the Iranian Foreign Affairs ministry, see Tārāj-i mīrā-i millī ed. Davudlu, Karim, (1999) 1: 211–16Google Scholar.

2. See, for example, Bohrer, F. N., ed., Sevruguin and the Persian Image: Photographs of Iran, 1870–1930 (Washington, D.C., 1999)Google Scholar; Spurr, Jeffrey B., “Person and Place: the Construction of Ronald Graham's Persian Photo Album,” Muqarnas 19 (2002): 193223CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Yahya Zokaᵓ's work cited in note 3. During Sevruguin's own lifetime many travel books and works of Iranian studies also reproduced his commercial as well as commissioned photographs.

3. Zokaᵓ, Yahya, Tārīkh-i ᶜakkāsī wa ᶜakkāsān-i pīshgām dar Īrān (Tehran, 1376/1997), 136–41Google Scholar and 61 unnumbered pages of Sevruguin's photographs at the end of the book.