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India Through Photography
Two Times, Two Photographers: Samuel Bourne - Xavier GueganThe 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
Lankapura: Historic Images of Sri Lanka
A very nicely done site in blog form with hundreds of old images of Ceylon. Many are postcards, but albumen, engravings and other types included. Tags include major studios like Plate, Skeen and Andre. Images are also organized by theme, from cities to religious life and landscapes.Read more
Where Three Dreams Cross
150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and BangladeshAn exciting new exhibition in London at the Whitechapel Gallery from January 21 through April 11 2010.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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zemindar
s. Pers. zamīn-dār, 'landholder.' One holding land on which he pays revenue to the Government direct, and not to any intermediate superior.
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