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  • Tropical Aracadia: Early Photography in Ceylon

    Early Photography in Ceylon
    This exhibition catalog for the 2009-2010 exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in Berlin has some nice pictures, especially by Charles Scowen, who is is slowly being recognized as one of the finest Raj photographers despite so little biographical information.Read more

  • Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital, 1936-1947

    Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital, 1936-1947
    Author: Elizabeth Edwards, Tsering Sharkya, Clare Harris
    Publisher: Serindia Publications (2003)
    Binding: Paperback, 176 pages

    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

  • 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

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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