Dmitri Yermakov

Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov
Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov, 1885
Born	Dmitri Ivanovich Caribaggio 1846 Tiflis, Russian Empire
Died	10 November 1916(1916-11-10) (aged 69–70)
Nationality	Russian
Known for	Photographer
Movement	Orientalist

Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Ермаков) (1846 – November 10, 1916) was a Russian Empire 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.

Work

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  Armenian noble woman from Tiflis, date unknown
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  Girls and Aged Woman Djeg Settlement, 1880
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  The House of Arshakuni, 1884-86
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  Princess Lazarev in Tatar costume, date unknown
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  A Jew with nuts, date unknown
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  Georgians with national clothes, date unknown
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  Kurd in the Russian service,
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  Shah Abbas mosque in Ganja, early 1900s
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  Rug Deal at the Tiflis Bazaar, date unknown
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  The Oriental Bath, 1880

Bibliography

• Dimitri Ermakov In Iran (with Irina Koshoridze, Lika Mamatsashvili, Grigol Beradze), 2019, ISBN 9789941817564

See also

D. Jermakov's photographic stamp. Tiflis.

• List of Orientalist artists
• List of artistic works with Orientalist influences
• Orientalism