Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov

Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov
Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov, 1885
Born Dmitri Ivanovich Caribaggio
1846
Tiflis
Died 10 November 1916
Nationality Russian
Known for Photographer
Movement Orientalist

Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Ермаков) (1846 – November 10, 1916) was a Russian photographer known for his series of the Caucasian photographs.

Life and career

Dmitri Jermakov and family, 1896

Yermakov was born in Tiflis 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).

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.[1]

Work

See also

D. Jermakov's photographic stamp. Tiflis.

References

  1. John Hannavy (2008), Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography, pp. 494-5. CRC Press, ISBN 0-415-97235-3
  • dimitriermakov.wordpress.com


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