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The Camera at Udaipur, 1857-1957
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
Photographic Memories: India, China, Japan
An entirely new Photographic Memories is running through January 17, 2010. Curated by Qamar Adamjee, largely from the Ehrenfeld Collection, with informative captions tracing individual photographs and their context.Read moreMonuments, Landscapes (Brij Sample)
(You can replace or add to this, from the site itself) Monuments, Landscapes and Romance in Popular Indian Imagery by Kajri Jain looks at one aspect of the representation of monuments in Indian popular images (particularly calendar art): their use as a backdrop for romantic couples.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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gunja
GUNJA , s. Hind. gānjhā, gānjā. The flowering or fruiting shoots of the female plant of Indian hemp (Cannabis sativa, L., formerly distinguished as C. indica), used as an intoxicant. (See BANG.)