Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/11
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On 11 Feb 98 at 0:16, ted grant wrote:
>
> What is it with you Armenian's and photography? :)
>
> We have the classic portrait photographer Yousf Karsh and his
> equally as great, but lesser known brother Malak, Michael Hintlian
> in Boston a super Leica shooter with his big exhibition opening on
> wednesday evening (11 Feb) in Boston, yourself and I probably have
> any number of other photographer aquaintences of the same ethnic
> background.
>
> What did you get brought up on, Kodak crunchies? :) Or Fuji crackle
> snap and pop flakes? :)
Well, it's history lesson time. The Armenians were prominent in the
19th century photography business in the east. The accursed Abdul
Hamid II presented the Library of Congress with a number of albums of
photographs done by Armenian photographers. Susan Meiselas' book on
Kurdistan contains an example of the work of the photographer
Sevruguin who had a studio in Teheran. The Ellis Island exhibit on
the Armenians includes a photograph from the studio of Dildilian
whose son was a photographer in US. And more recently, Photo
District News carried a front page article a couple of years ago
about Ara Guler, an Armenian photographer based in Istanbul who had
just published a monograph - impossible to find in this country - of
photographs of that city.
Roy C. Zartarian
http://www.connix.com/~royzart
"A prophet is not without honor except in his
own land and among his own people"
Written with the assistance of a labrador retriever whose chin is on the key board. All typos are his fault.