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Konstantine Zanis – Photographer, Portrait (1897)

Portrait of photographer Konstantine Zanisi, 1897.

This portrait shows photographer Konstantine Zanisi, dated 1897. The image presents the subject in a contemplative pose, leaning on his folded arms in a studio-style portrait typical of late nineteenth-century photographic practice.

Zanisi is associated with the photographic milieu of Tiflis in the 1890s, when amateur and professional photographers actively participated in exhibitions and photographic societies such as the Tiflis Society of Amateur Photographers.