Sri Lanka

Tropical Aracadia: Early Photography in Ceylon

Early Photography in Ceylon
This exhibition catalog for the 2009-2010 exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in Berlin has some nice pictures, especially by Charles Scowen, who is is slowly being recognized as one of the finest Raj photographers despite so little biographical information.Read more

Inside a Ceylonese Graphite Mine

graphite-mine

This photograph shows men working at a graphite mine in Sri Lanka [Ceylon]. It probably was taken at Bogala, then the country's principal graphite mine in the 1880s. Graphite, a form of carbon, is used in pencils and numerous industrial goods and compounds.Read more

Lankapura: Historic Images of Sri Lanka

Fishing Boats

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

Facing Asia: histories and legacies of Asian studio photography

Facing Asia Anonymous Studio Portrait
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

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

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

One Room Continent

Photo Memories
An exhibition of photographs from India, China and Japan at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, California offers a rare opportunity to see images from all three of Asia’s photographic innovators in a single room.

While most of the 36 photographs are from India, pride of place is a glass case along the main wall of colorized images of Beijing’s Summer Palace in the late 1920s. The crisp colors are breath-taking.Read more

Postcards: A Neglected Source of Anthropological Data

Burmese Beauty
This very useful essay by R.E.L. Tanner, an English scholar, explains why the study of postcards can reveals much about history that other historical sources usually miss. He goes through a long set of instances and examples of where postcards reveal something important and unexpected about its subjects.Read more

Photographic Memories: India, China, Japan

Lord Lansdowne
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 more

What is an Article?

Attock Bridge Inside
An article is a PDF or Word document or set of web pages that describe new research or information in the field of Raj photography or vintage imagery from roughly 1848 through 1947. Conquest through independence. Use the Create Content button, the Create Article.Read more

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