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    M2 Presswire
    January 28, 2005

    Kansas State University: K-State student Union features Smithsonian
    photography exhibit


    M2 PRESSWIRE-JANUARY 28, 2005-Kansas State University: K-State
    Ttudent Union features Smithsonian photography exhibit ©1994-2005 M2
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    MANHATTAN - The William T. Kemper Art Gallery at Kansas State
    University's K-State Student Union is now featuring "Antoin Sevruguin
    and the Persian Image," a photography exhibition from the Smithsonian
    Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

    The exhibition will be on display in the gallery through Friday,
    March 4.

    The gallery, on the first floor, is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5
    p.m. and admission is free.

    The exhibition includes 35 black-and-white photographs made from
    original negatives and vintage prints housed in the archives of the
    Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art. It
    presents a glimpse into the history of Iran through the eyes of one
    of the nation's most creative photographers, Antoin Sevruguin.

    Sevruguin, an Armenian Christian, lived most of his life in Tehran
    traveling among the diverse worlds of Iranian society. His
    photographs document Iran's struggle at the turn of the 20th century
    to balance an ancient past with the modern present. His work included
    a great diversity of themes. Street scenes, images of common people,
    ceremonies, palace officials, archaeological studies and mountain
    landscapes fill the numerous plate-glass negatives he shot throughout
    his career.

    Sevruguin's patronage was equally diverse. He served the royal court
    of the shahs and he ran a portrait studio open to the public. He also
    journeyed to sites of early Persian civilization to photograph the
    ruins of the Iranian past.

    Most of Sevruguin's work was destroyed as a result of the Iranian
    constitutional crisis of 1906 and the transition from the Qajar to
    the Pahlavi dynasty. Today, the Myron Bement Smith Collection of the
    Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
    archives houses one of the world's largest collections of surviving
    work by Sevruguin. The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and adjacent Freer
    Gallery of Art together form the national museum of Asian art at the
    Smithsonian. More information is available online at
    http://www.asia.si.edu

    Each year, the Smithsonian Institutions Traveling Exhibition Service
    shares the Smithsonian's collections and research programs with
    millions of people outside Washington, D.C. One of the Smithsonian's
    four National Programs, the exhibition service makes available a wide
    range of exhibitions about art, science and history. Exhibition
    descriptions and tour schedules are available at
    http://www.sites.si.edu

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