India

First Shots: Early War Photography 1848–1860

First Shots, National Amy Museum
Using some of the earliest photos in the collection of the National Army Museum in London, this exhibition explores very early war photography - and the first known war photographs were taken in what is now Pakistan.Read more

Pioneers of Indian Photography

Village of India
A detailed essay by one of the most important scholars of British Indian photography and longtime curator of the photograph collection at the India Office Library, John Falconer. The essay very nicely summarizes early photographic activity in India, and offers footnotes and references to make its case.Read more

What is an Article?

Attock Bridge Inside
An article is a PDF or Word document or set of web pages that describe new research or information in the field of Raj photography or vintage imagery from roughly 1848 through 1947. Conquest through independence. Use the Create Content button, the Create Article.Read more

Delhi Collonade

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The famous colonnade outside Delhi that disappeared in the mid-1890s has been rediscovered during a construction operation outside New Delhi.

First hand accounts say that the temple . . .

Fred Bremner's Indian Years

Chopa Rift
An essay by Brij Sharma on this early frontier photographer from History of Photography accompanied by numerous albumen photographs.Read more

War Photography 1848-1947

Chiefs
War Photography in Nineteenth-Century India and Afghanistan traces the simultaneous arrival of the gun and camera in the north west of the subcontinent. The essay first appeared in the book Reverie and Reality, based on the Ehrenfeld Collection in San Francisco.Read more

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

India Through Photography

Bourne Lucknow
Two Times, Two Photographers: Samuel Bourne - Xavier Guegan

The exhibition provides a fascinating insight into the changing face on India over the last 150 years. 'In India through Photography: Two Times, Two Photographers' Newcastle-based academic Dr Xavier Guégan compares images of modern day India with images taken in the 1860’s by the famous photographer Samuel Bourne, providing a fascinating insight into the development of visual art from colonialism to post-colonialism.'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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