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"QAJAR PERSIA" IN THE EYES OF ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHER HITS BOOKSTORES
http://tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/95116-qajar-persia-in-the-eyes-of-italian-photographer-hits-bookstores
04 February 2012 15:42
A cover of the Persian version of "Qajar Persia" TEHRAN -- Pictures
taken by the Italian photographer Luigi Montabone have recently been
published in a book named "The Qajar Persia".
Compiled by Mojgan Tariqati, the bilingual book was edited by Iraj
Afshar. Shahriar Adl and Mohammad Sattari have written a preface for
the book released by Mirdashti Publications.
The book contains 71 photos taken by Montabone. The photos are
collected from three albums; two of them are now in Tehran's Golestan
Palace and another is kept in Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, Tariqati
mentioned in book's prelude.
She mentioned that Montabone has added or removed photos from albums.
For example, he removed four photos of ladies, three of them were
Italians and one of them was Armenian lady from Tbilisi, from the
albums dedicated to the Golestan Palace.
Instead, the albums contain photos featuring urban landscapes,
people's social culture, historical sites, people's costumes, jobs
as well as people from different social classes.
Arguably, Luigi Montabone (? - 1877) might be called the first and only
Italian photographer in nineteenth century in Iran. He was commissioned
to join an Italian delegation to Persia to take pictures of anything
that could be of interest to the members of this delegation.
The mission, consisting of sixteen persons, mostly diplomats and
scholars, left Geneva in 1862 for Constantinople, and from there
travelled via Tbilisi, Yerevan, Tabriz, and Qazvin to Tehran. The
delegation aimed to establish diplomatic relations and to promote
commercial affairs.
Montabone not only took portraits of all sorts of people, but also took
photographs of a variety of architectural structures, landscapes and
city views. He climbed buildings or hills to find beautiful panoramas
or just the right angle to take his photographs.
He also experimented with coloring his photographs which was and still
is a unique aspect within nineteenth century photography in Persia.
From: Baghdasarian
http://tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/95116-qajar-persia-in-the-eyes-of-italian-photographer-hits-bookstores
04 February 2012 15:42
A cover of the Persian version of "Qajar Persia" TEHRAN -- Pictures
taken by the Italian photographer Luigi Montabone have recently been
published in a book named "The Qajar Persia".
Compiled by Mojgan Tariqati, the bilingual book was edited by Iraj
Afshar. Shahriar Adl and Mohammad Sattari have written a preface for
the book released by Mirdashti Publications.
The book contains 71 photos taken by Montabone. The photos are
collected from three albums; two of them are now in Tehran's Golestan
Palace and another is kept in Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, Tariqati
mentioned in book's prelude.
She mentioned that Montabone has added or removed photos from albums.
For example, he removed four photos of ladies, three of them were
Italians and one of them was Armenian lady from Tbilisi, from the
albums dedicated to the Golestan Palace.
Instead, the albums contain photos featuring urban landscapes,
people's social culture, historical sites, people's costumes, jobs
as well as people from different social classes.
Arguably, Luigi Montabone (? - 1877) might be called the first and only
Italian photographer in nineteenth century in Iran. He was commissioned
to join an Italian delegation to Persia to take pictures of anything
that could be of interest to the members of this delegation.
The mission, consisting of sixteen persons, mostly diplomats and
scholars, left Geneva in 1862 for Constantinople, and from there
travelled via Tbilisi, Yerevan, Tabriz, and Qazvin to Tehran. The
delegation aimed to establish diplomatic relations and to promote
commercial affairs.
Montabone not only took portraits of all sorts of people, but also took
photographs of a variety of architectural structures, landscapes and
city views. He climbed buildings or hills to find beautiful panoramas
or just the right angle to take his photographs.
He also experimented with coloring his photographs which was and still
is a unique aspect within nineteenth century photography in Persia.
From: Baghdasarian