books
Raj Photography Books
Lahore: Illustrated Views
Pakistan's most important scholar of 19th century imagery shares his often personal collection of engravings, lithographs, paintings and numerous photographs of the old capital of Punjab. Fascinating captions add to an outstanding volume.Read more
Through Indian Eyes
A pioneering work, with an often misinformed text that seeks to describe a peculiarly "Indian" style of photography in Orientalist terms. Nonetheless, the many hand-colored photographs by local photographers are very interesting and form the nucleus of the collection at the Nehru Center in BombayRead more
Madras, Its past & Its present
An fascinating collection of recently discovered glass slides of Madras, with new illustrations of the same shots and informative captions by the city's leading historian. The kind of book every South Asian city should have.Read more
Victorian India in Focus
An interesting and pioneering collection by the expert Ray Desmond, marred by the low quality of photographic reproductions.Read more
The Last Empire
Clark Worswick was one of the first writers on British Indian photography, and while the historical information here is limited, the selection of photographs is the best of any such book. It was also the first major book in the field.Read more
Beato's Delhi 1857, 1997
An interesting and well-researched comparison of Felice Beato's photographs of Delhi just after the war of 1857 and shots of the same places today. The photographic print quality is unfortunately lacking, but this history is good.Read more
Images of British Ceylon
The publication of Images of Britsh Ceylon is a landmark event in the history of photography in the Indian subcontinent. It rather suddenly opens the door on the rich tradition of photography that flourished here early in the birth of the medium. The authors marshall page after page of fresh facts and stories, unveiled against larger British Ceylonese social and economic contexts.Read more
The Imperial Gaze
The companion to the New York Exhibition of the same name at the Alkazi Collection of Photography in 2000.Read more
Regeneration: Photography in Ceylon 1850-1900
This book is the superb catalog for an exhibition held in Colombo during the first part of 2000. Illuminating essays by John Falconer and others on the little-known photographic tradition that flourished on an island very different from the mainland Raj.Read more
Samuel Bourne
A beautifully produced and printed book based on Samuel Bourne's own narratives of his Himalayan journeys between 1863 and 1870. For English readers, it is unfortunately in German, but it is well worth the pictures. They are some of the best reproductions available in any book of Bourne's work.Read more
book types
- Photography (45)
- Photographer (5)
- History (25)
- Fiction (7)
- photo theme (6)
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