Pakistan

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

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

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

Souvenirs of Asia

Taj Senior
PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FAR EAST 1840-1920 by William F. Stapp
A 1994 article from the George Eastman House IMAGE magazine recently made available as a PDF. Published in connection with a Photokina exhibition, it includes a long article on photography in India, China and Japan and brief biographies of photographers.Read more

Where Three Dreams Cross

150 Years of Photography
150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

An exciting new exhibition in London at the Whitechapel Gallery from January 21 through April 11 2010.Read more

Fallen Giants

Fallen Gaints
Author: Maurice Isserman and Stuart Weaver
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2008
Binding: Hardcover, 592 pages
An exceptionally gripping and well-written history of mountaineering in the subcontinent from the mid-19th century. Major expeditions are covered in detail, and the book is well illustrated with vintage photographs.Read more

Old Postcards from Pakistan

Old Pakistan Postcard

by Liz McKendrick
Pakistan is very much in the news these days as it shares part of its border with Afghanistan. News reporters are seen standing in cities near the border such as Quetta or Peshawar – names that bring back images of the Afghan wars of the 19th Century when Britain first sent a military presence to this part of the world.Read more

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