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Tasveer Ghar
The "House of Pictures" is an image repository together with the scholarship to help understand and curate them. Supported by three major universities and important collectors of these art forms, it features regular new essays by experts in India, Europe and the US.Read moreSacred Sight: Photographs in India
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 moreFacing Asia: histories and legacies of Asian studio photography
A call for papers to an international two day conference on early photographers and their studio practices in Asia, and cross-cultural exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region.Presented by the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University at the National Gallery of Australia in August 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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bund
s. Any artificial embank- ment, a dam, dyke, or causeway. H. band. The root is both Skt. (bandh) and P., but the common word, used as it is without aspirate, seems to have come from the latter.