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  • Photo Icons I

    Photo Icons I (Icon (Taschen)) (v. 1)
    Author: Hans-Michael Koetzle
    Publisher: Taschen (2008)
    Binding: Hardcover, 2008 pages

    Although there is nothing here about India, Photo Icons is one of the best single books on photography available today. Each of its 20 well-written essays decodes a single historical photograph using fresh historical research and profound insight.Read more

  • Fallen Giants

    Fallen Gaints
    Author: Maurice Isserman and Stuart Weaver
    Publisher: Yale University Press, 2008
    Binding: Hardcover, 592 pages
    An exceptionally gripping and well-written history of mountaineering in the subcontinent from the mid-19th century. Major expeditions are covered in detail, and the book is well illustrated with vintage photographs.Read more

  • Asians in East Africa

    Asians in East Africa
    This slim but fascinating volume by a Professor at Erasmus University in the Netherlands uses photographs, cabinet cards, postcards and other material to illustrate the lives of Indians in East Africa from the late 19th through early 20th century.Read more

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  • Lucknow: City of Illusion

    Lucknow City of Illusion
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    Publisher: Prestel Publishing (2006)
    Binding: Hardcover, 295 pages

    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

    Reverie and Reality
    Author: Sophie Gordon, Omar Khan, John Falconer
    Publisher: Fine Arts Museum Of San Francisco (2006)
    Binding: Hardcover, 188 pages

    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