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  • The Imperial Gaze

    Author: Sophie Gordon
    Publisher: Sepia International Inc. and the Alkazi Collection of Photograph (2000)
    Binding: Unknown Binding, 27 pages

    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

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    Publisher: British (2000)
    Binding: Hardcover, 95 pages

    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

  • Camera Indica

    Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs (Envisioning Asia)
    Author: Christopher Pinney
    Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (1998)
    Binding: Paperback, 240 pages

    Christopher Pinney's Camera Indica is the first book to look at photography from its inception as an alien form in colonial times through its assimilation, a century and a half later, into the most intimate recesses of Indian tradition.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: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of India from the Ehrenfeld Collection
    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