Tropical Arcadia. Early Photography in Ceylon

Scowen
Extended to May 30, 2010
Building on its activities in the field of historic photography, the Asian Art Museum Berlin is presenting to the public for the first time an exquisite selection of rare vintage prints from Ceylon.

The exhibit features albumen prints and stereoscopic photography from two Berlin private collections of work of the 1870s through the 1890s.Read more

A Lurid Magic Lantern Slide

India 1857 by Joseph Boggs Beale
The Sepoy Rebellion by Joseph Boggs Beale, a powerful magic lantern slide, was published in 1899. Beale was America's foremost Victorian magic lantern artist. It was his only slide of India among the 2,000 that he drew.Read more

Sonam Kapoor and Lala Deen Dayal

Bollywood meets Raj photography.

Souvenirs of Asia

Taj Senior
PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FAR EAST 1840-1920 by William F. Stapp
A 1994 article from the George Eastman House IMAGE magazine recently made available as a PDF. Published in connection with a Photokina exhibition, it includes a long article on photography in India, China and Japan and brief biographies of photographers.Read more

Welcome to Photoraj

Varanasi Fakir
Photoraj is about images made from the 1840s to 1940s in the Indian subcontinent.

India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma, Afghanistan and Nepal during the British Raj.

One hundred transformative years through images and text.Read more

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