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The Prince of Photographers Raja Deen Dayal
Author: Narendra LutherPublisher: Hyderabadi.in (2006)Binding: Hardcover, 158 pagesA nicely printed and designed book about the foremost Indian photographer during the Raj, Raja Deen Dayal. The book covers many of his finest photographs, and the rise and fall of his studio in Hyderabad. With historic documents, advertisements and other memorabilia, written by a historian of Hyderabad.
Visualing Indian Women 1875-1947
Author: Malavika KarlekarPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA (2006)Binding: Hardcover, 152 pagesA superb book, with close readings of images loaded with history and crisp observations. Karlekar really knows how to decode photographic gestures. The richness of imagery still available, in this case from private collections all over India, is amazing.Read more
Re-visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal 1875-1915
Author: Malavika KarlekarPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA (2005)Binding: Paperback, 208 pagesWhile initial chapters recount well known early Indian photographic history, the next ones comprise an intelligent and thought-provoking analysis of photography in Bengal and the role it played in mediating cultural relations between colonizers and the emerging Bengali middle and upper classes.Read more
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In Pursuit of the Past
The 3rd edition of this much sought after research memoir is now available. In November 2000 Christopher Penn discovered an old letter crumpled up behind the top drawer of his late father’s writing bureau. It led to the discovery of a family – his own – of which he had been unaware and knowledge of his great-grandfather Albert Thomas Watson Penn, who was one of the pioneering photographers of South India.Read moreLucknow: City of Illusion
Author:Publisher: Prestel Publishing (2006)Binding: Hardcover, 295 pagesA 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
Author: Sophie Gordon, Omar Khan, John FalconerPublisher: Fine Arts Museum Of San Francisco (2006)Binding: Hardcover, 188 pagesSince 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
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godown
s. A warehouse for goods and stores; an outbuilding used for stores; a store-room. The word is in constant use in the Chinese ports as well as in India.