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Raj Photography Books
Lucknow: City of Illusion
A gorgeous book on 19th century photography, about the most well-photographed and interesting city that became part of British India and the geographic heart of Raj photography. The book features superb essays and spectacular photogems by Felix Beato, John Sache and other photographers of the period.Read more
Reverie and Reality
Since its invention in the 1840s, photography has been used to record images of exotic locales. At the time, these photographs provided a glimpse of the world to a curious public, few of whom could ever hope to visit those places. In Reality and Reverie, a visual history of nineteenth-century India unfolds in an exhibition of 112 vintage photographs,Read more
Tropical Aracadia: Early Photography in Ceylon
Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital, 1936-1947
A collection of photographs of one of the last areas in South Asia photographed in the early 19th century. These largely amateur photographs taken by British visitors are glimpses of a world and way of life that have changed enormously; the book also includes material originally taken on film.Read more
From Bombay to Shanghai
Publisher: Museum fur Volkenkude, Rotterdam, 1995
Binding: Softcover, 112 pages
One of the first books to explore photography in Southeast Asia was published in connection with an exhibition at the Museum of Ethnology in Rotterdam, Holland in 1994.Read more
Murree A Glimpse Through the Forest
Publisher: Amur Maple Books, 2002
Binding: Hardcover, 210 pages
One wishes many more such books existed, covering all the hillstations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Full of excellent photographs by Craddock, Burke, Thomas Winter, as well as color engravings and postcards of the biggest of the Raj hillstations in Pakistan, the entire work is tasteful and informative.Read more
Portraits in Princely India: 1700-1947
Another princely India volume makes one wonder when an album of unknown Indians from the 19th century will be published. An album of assorted types without name, pedigree and other enticements for a photographer, no chance of controlling the outcome.Read more
On Service in India
A nice collection of photographs, many by John Burke of the Second Afghan War, from a prominent British Indian family collection. Full of interesting biographical facts and images.Read more
The People of India
Compiled and Edited by J. Forbes Watson & J. W. Kaye.
This work, originally commissioned by the Government of India, is one of the great photographic books of the Nineteenth Century.Read more
Painted Photographs
This slim and beautiful catalogue is packed with 60 extraordinary full-page images. They reveal something of the specific genius of Indian photography: colorization.Read more
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