Dmitri Yermakov

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

Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov
Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov, 1885
Born
Dmitri Ivanovich Caribaggio

1846
Tiflis, Russian Empire
Died10 November 1916(1916-11-10) (aged 69–70)
NationalityRussian
Known forPhotographer
MovementOrientalist

Life and career

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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

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Bibliography

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

See also

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D. Jermakov's photographic stamp. Tiflis.

References

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