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Picturing Mountains As Hills: Hill Station Postcards and the Tales They Tell
by Shashwati Talukdar"The colonial postcard [was] particularly well suited to encode the project of empire," writes the author, who then goes on to explore how hillstation postcards were used to tame the Himalayas.
Another interesting, nicely illustrated by means of a separate slide show, essay from Tasveerghar, the Delhi publishing research archive.
Imaginary Essence
The evolution of the photo studio in 19th-century IndiaAn newspaper feature article by Malaveka Karlekar, author of many books on 19th century photography in India including Re-visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal 1875-1915 . She explores themes around the formation of photography studios in India and how they impacted the local population.Read more
Samuel Bourne's Colonial Legacy
Royal Photographic Society Journal, February 2010Researcher Julienne Pascoe discusses a set of seven personal albums of Samuel Bourne that recently came together thanks to the vagaries of collecting and the auction market. An extensive, thoughtful analysis of this rare find. There are few similar opportunities to see what Raj photographers themselves treasured.
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Pioneers of Indian Photography
A detailed essay by one of the most important scholars of British Indian photography and longtime curator of the photograph collection at the India Office Library, John Falconer. The essay very nicely summarizes early photographic activity in India, and offers footnotes and references to make its case.Read moreWhat is an Article?
An article is a PDF or Word document or set of web pages that describe new research or information in the field of Raj photography or vintage imagery from roughly 1848 through 1947. Conquest through independence. Use the Create Content button, the Create Article.Read moreWar Photography 1848-1947
War Photography in Nineteenth-Century India and Afghanistan traces the simultaneous arrival of the gun and camera in the north west of the subcontinent. The essay first appeared in the book Reverie and Reality, based on the Ehrenfeld Collection in San Francisco.Read more
