Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov () (1846 – November 10, 1916) was a
Russian
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photographer known for his series of the
Caucasian photographs.
Life and career
Yermakov was born in
Tiflis
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in 1846, the son of the Italian architect Luigi Caribaggio and a Georgian mother of Austrian descent. She remarried the Russian Ermakov whose surname her son Dmitry took. Trained as a military topographer, he took part in the
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
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.
As an adult, he operated photographic businesses in Tiflis. He traveled extensively as far as
Iran
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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
Georgia
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n museums.
[John Hannavy (2008), ''Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography'', pp. 494-5. CRC Press, ]
Work
File:Armenian noble woman from Tiflis Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov.jpg, Armenian noble woman from Tiflis, date unknown
File:Ceklilər Cek kəndində, 1880 (qadınlar)-Yermakov Dmitriy Ivanovich.jpg, Girls and Aged Woman Djeg Settlement, 1880
File:Tbilisi Art Acdemy photo from archive.jpg, ''The House of Arshakuni,'' 1884–86
File:D. Ermakov. Princess Lazarev in Tatar costume.jpg, Princess Lazarev in Tatar costume, date unknown
File:A Jew with nuts (Ermakov).jpg, A Jew with nuts, date unknown
File:Ermakov. Georgians with national clothes.jpg, Georgians with national clothes, date unknown
File:Ermakov. № 6997. Kurd in the Russian service. 557.jpg, Kurd in the Russian service,
File:Shah Abbas mosque in Ganja 1900s.jpg, Shah Abbas mosque in Ganja, early 1900s
File:Azerbaijani rug merchants in Tiflis.jpg, Rug Deal at the Tiflis Bazaar, date unknown
File:Yermakov. The Oriental bath. Massage. 1880.jpg, The Oriental Bath, 1880
Bibliography
* ''Dimitri Ermakov In Iran'' (with Irina Koshoridze, Lika Mamatsashvili, Grigol Beradze), 2019,
See also
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List of Orientalist artists
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List of artistic works with Orientalist influences
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Art
* David Roberts, ''The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia'' (1842)
* Théodore Chassériau, '' Arab Chiefs Challenging each other to Single Combat un ...
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Orientalism
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1846 births
1916 deaths
19th-century photographers from the Russian Empire
Archaeological photographers
People from the Russian Empire of Italian descent
People from the Russian Empire of Austrian descent
Orientalists from the Russian Empire
Artists from Tbilisi
Russian military personnel of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
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