Author: MAMATSASHVILI, Lika & Herman MAES
Title: Dimitri Ermakov - Photographer and Collector. Masters of 19th Century Photography.
Description: Tbilisi, Georgian National Museum, 2014. 28.5 x 24.5 cm. 302 pp. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated. - Complete archive of photographer, collector and entrepreneur Dimitri Ermakov. This very large collection consists of images that Ermakov made himself, supplemented with photos of contemporaries from the Caucasus. - Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov (1846-1916) Russian photographer known for his series of the Caucasian photographs . - As an adult, he operated photographic businesses in Tiflis. He traveled extensively as far as Iran and participated in several archaeological expeditions in the Caucasus, leaving a series of unique photographs. These photographs document the lifestyles, customs and costumes of Russian people in the late 19th-century forming an important ethnographic record of the region and its inhabitants. Thousands of his negatives are now kept at Georgian museums. - Corners a tiny bit bumped, otherwise a fine copy

Keywords: 9789941938009


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