Iranyan, Mihran.

21 albumen prints (187 x 247mm., or the reverse), each captioned in French and signed in the negative, each tipped onto a later grey card mount, loose within a later grey card portfolio, modern label pasted on upper cover, some light spotting, stains and discoloration, portfolio slightly chipped

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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Rare photographs of Constantinople by Iranyan, an Armenian Ottoman photographer, whose earliest known studio in Constantinople was located in Pera in 1891. In 1895 Iranyan started a photographic partnership with another Armenian named Gugasyan, which lasted a few years. Not many of his photographs have survived, but those that do, show that he “appears to have done some very good work from the standpoint of its aesthetic values.” (B. Öztuncay. The Photographers of Constantinople, 2003, vol.1, p.315)