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Souvenirs of Asia
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 moreOld Postcards from Pakistan
by Liz McKendrick
Pakistan is very much in the news these days as it shares part of its border with Afghanistan. News reporters are seen standing in cities near the border such as Quetta or Peshawar – names that bring back images of the Afghan wars of the 19th Century when Britain first sent a military presence to this part of the world.Read morePhantasmagoric Aesthetics
Colonial Violence and the Management of Perceptionby Zahid Chaudhary
A detailed, insightful examination of Beato's famous photographs from Lucknow in March 1858 showing skeletons and the remnants of battles just fought in the city.Read more
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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
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s. This is the name by which the Musa sapientum is universally known to Anglo-India. Books distinguish between the Musa sapientum or plantain, and the Musa paradisaica or banana; but it is hard to understand where the line is supposed to be drawn. Variation is gradual and infinite.
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