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.

The essay by the author of From Kashmir to Kabul, discusses the first war-related photography during the British Raj, from John McCosh in 1848 to Beato in 1858. William Baker and John Burke's work in NWFP and Afghanistan is described, as well as later work in the area by Fred Bremner and William and Randolph Holmes. A number of photographs both from the late Dr. Ehrenfeld's Collection and the author's are shown, including an extraordinary shot of three tribal leaders taken before their likely execution in 1896 during the Marri Uprising in Balochistan.

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