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One Hundred Vintage Views of India
Bernard J Shapero Rare Books, London and Tasveer, Bangalore are pleased to present this touring exhibition, One Hundred Vintage Views of India. The collection does not by any means attempt to portray a complete group of photographs from the Indian Subcontinent during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Instead, what this show hopes to achieve is to offer a taste of the breadth and depth of this subject. The selection here offers a variety of affordable and rare early photographic prints.Read more
Samuel Bourne and Colin Murray
Early Photography from Delhi, Agra and RajasthanThe first in a proposed series of exhibitions highlighting the Asian Art Museum in Berlin's South Asian photography collection.Read more
1,001 100 Year Old Postcards of India
A vast collection of over a thousand postcards of India from the golden age of the medium, 1895-1915. Most are in color and have been professionally restored. Major Indian artists like M.V. Dhurandhar and Ravi Varma were early postcard artists, as were premiere European publishers like Raphael Tuck & Sons.Read more
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Tropical Arcadia. Early Photography in Ceylon
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
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 moreFred Bremner's Indian Years
An essay by Brij Sharma on this early frontier photographer from History of Photography accompanied by numerous albumen photographs.Read more
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s. The authorised Anglo-Indian form of the name of a weight (Hind. man, Mahr. maṇ), which, with varying values, has been current over Western Asia from time immemorial.