India Through Photography

Bourne Lucknow
Two Times, Two Photographers: Samuel Bourne - Xavier Guegan

The exhibition provides a fascinating insight into the changing face on India over the last 150 years. 'In India through Photography: Two Times, Two Photographers' Newcastle-based academic Dr Xavier Guégan compares images of modern day India with images taken in the 1860’s by the famous photographer Samuel Bourne, providing a fascinating insight into the development of visual art from colonialism to post-colonialism.'Read more

Murree Then and Now

Archival and current photographs to perfect musical accompaniment by Ali Jan.

Tropical Aracadia: Early Photography in Ceylon

Early Photography in Ceylon
This exhibition catalog for the 2009-2010 exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in Berlin has some nice pictures, especially by Charles Scowen, who is is slowly being recognized as one of the finest Raj photographers despite so little biographical information.Read more

Inside a Ceylonese Graphite Mine

graphite-mine

This photograph shows men working at a graphite mine in Sri Lanka [Ceylon]. It probably was taken at Bogala, then the country's principal graphite mine in the 1880s. Graphite, a form of carbon, is used in pencils and numerous industrial goods and compounds.Read more

Lankapura: Historic Images of Sri Lanka

Fishing Boats

A very nicely done site in blog form with hundreds of old images of Ceylon. Many are postcards, but albumen, engravings and other types included. Tags include major studios like Plate, Skeen and Andre. Images are also organized by theme, from cities to religious life and landscapes.Read more

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