Nasir Al-Din Shah at His Desk at Talar-i Ayineh (Hall of Mirrors)

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Nasir Al-Din Shah at His Desk at Talar-i Ayineh (Hall of Mirrors)

Nasir Al-Din Shah at His Desk at Talar-i Ayineh (Hall of Mirrors)
By Antoin Sevruguin
Iran, 1880-1930
Myron Bement Smith Collection: Antoin Sevruguin Photographs. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Gift of Katherine Dennis Smith, 1973-1985, FSA_A.4_2.12.GN.03.06

Nasir al-Din Shah was fascinated by the new medium of photography, and had the Tehran photographer Antoin Sevruguin take this photograph in the Hall of Mirrors at the Golestan Palace. It shows the Shah at his desk — and the photographer himself, reflected in the mirror.

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