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  • Splendours of Imperial India

    Splendours of Imperial India: British Architecture in the 18th and 19th Centuries
    Author: Andreas Volwahsen
    Publisher: Prestel Publishing (2004)
    Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

    A sumptuously illustrated, very well-researched study of the architectural styles of British India by a very well-respected scholar. The books focus is on Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata and the very unique architectural styles that developed in the Presidency capitals, the results of official policy and the vision of select architects.Read more

  • Art and Visual Culture in India

    Art and Visual Culture in India: 1857 - 2007
    Author: Gayatri Sinha
    Publisher: Marg Publications (2009)
    Binding: Hardcover, 300 pages

    "This volume brings together 19 seminal essays on India's visual culture and its leading manifestations during the period 1857-2007. It traces the shifting role of the artist and art institution through cataclysmic changes in India's history. The early essays cover the age of empire,Read more

  • Straight to the Heart

    Straight to the Heart
    Author: Roberta Llewellyn
    Publisher: Outskirts Press, Littleton, Colorado, US (2007)

    Percy, an African-American Vietnam veteran, is a photographer, who becomes romantically involved with Sarah, a mature, passionate woman living in the Bay Area.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