Real World

Exhibitions at galleries and museums, open to the public.

Tropical Arcadia. Early Photography in Ceylon

Scowen
Extended to May 30, 2010
Building on its activities in the field of historic photography, the Asian Art Museum Berlin is presenting to the public for the first time an exquisite selection of rare vintage prints from Ceylon.

The exhibit features albumen prints and stereoscopic photography from two Berlin private collections of work of the 1870s through the 1890s.Read more

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

Sacred Sight: Photographs in India

Indian Nobleman
This group exhibition in Dubai in association with the Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York includes work by Margaret Bourke-White, Bourne & Shepherd, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Bhalu Mondhe and others including anonymous Raj photographers.Read more

Points of View

Kleir Burma Boatman

The first major photography exhibition hosted by The British Library, this selection brings forth may gems of early photography. The curator is John Falconer, longtime dean of early research into Indian photography.Read more

Gandhi Jayanti

Gandhi on Train
A month log exhibition at the Gandhi Center in Maryland, USA based on the History in the Making: The Visual Archives of Photojournalist Kulwant Roy from the Aditya Arya Archive. The opening reception on Oct. 2 will be addressed by the Ambassador of India to the US, Meera Shankar.Read more

Tribal Art London 2009

Tribal Arts

An exhibition of fine early nineteenth century portrait photographs from Sept. 23-26th, 2009 in London. The portraits include a number of fine Indian portraits.

The firm's new catalogue, Face to Face II will also be launched during the exhibition.

The Photographer's Pilgrimage

Tripe Buddha
The Photographers' Pilgrimage: Exploring Buddhist Sites in Asia is an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London curated by Divia Patel. It is open from April 29 until June 21st and features work by Linnaeus Tripe in Burma and Joseph Lawton in Sri Lanka.Read more

Modern India

Camera
Modern India is an exhibition which examines questions of history, culture, art and social reality in India from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. " This exhibition in Valencia, Spain ran from Dec 2008 through Feb. 2009 and includes a substantial catalog with numerous images available online.Read more

Vijayanagara

Vijayanagra
VIJAYANAGRA Splendour in Ruins is an exhibition presented by The Prakiti Foundation & Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai and the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in Delhi from March 23 until April 4 2009.Read more

The Camera at Udaipur, 1857-1957

Camera at Mewar
Selections from the Pictorial Archives of the Maharanas of Mewar in Rajasthan, India.

"Udaipur is not merely a tourist destination. It is a living culture that nurtures the essence of the past, yet continually updates itself with modern elements," in the words of Arvind Singh Mewar,Read more

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