Abdollah Mirza Qajar

Abdollah Mirza Qajar
Photograph of Abdollah Mirza Qajar
Born1850 (1850)
Qajar Iran
Died1912 (aged 61–62)
Tehran, Qajar Iran
DynastyQajar dynasty
FatherJahangir Mirza Qajar
ReligionTwelver Shia Islam
OccupationPhotography
EducationDar al-Fonun

Abdollah Mirza Qajar (Persian: عبدالله میرزا قاجار; 1850–1912) was an Iranian photographer from the Qajar dynasty. He was the son of Jahangir Mirza Qajar. He was closely associated with the Dar al-Fonun college, where he graduated, and was appointed as its teacher of photography in 1883.[1] From then until, 1896, Naser al-Din Shah and his close companion, Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Soltan, often assigned Abdollah Mirza on journeys devoted to photography.[2]

Abdollah Mirza Qajar died in 1912 in Tehran.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Helbig 2017, p. 81.
  2. ^ Helbig 2017, p. 80.

Sources

  • Helbig, Elahe (2017). "Geographies Traced and Histories Told: Photographic Documentation of Land and People by ʿAbdollah Mirza Qajar, 1880s–1890s". In Markus Ritter; Scheiwiller, Staci G. (eds.). The Indigenous Lens?: Early Photography in the Near and Middle East. De Gruyter. pp. 79–110. ISBN 978-0300112542.