<p>This volume explores the development of the embellished image in India through the painted photograph, a genre that marks a significant chapter in the history of Indian photography.</p>

Painted Photographs: Coloured Portraiture in India

Arts & Photography

Alkazi, Ebrahim

Allana, Rahaab

Kumar, Pramod

History & Criticism

Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd

Traces the history of photography in Bombay from the mid-19th to the early-20th century.

The Artful Pose: Early Studio Photography in Mumbai - 1855-1940

Mitter, Partha

Tankha, Akshaya

Photography & Video

An attempt to trace the development of photography and the other allied visual arts in Pondicherry spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Mastering the Lens: Before and After Cartier-Bresson in Pondicherry

Goswami, Shilpi

Bharathan, Deepak

The extraordinary range of photography from South Asia dates back to the official birth of the medium - in the mid-19th century. This catalogue, published to accompany an exhibition at the Rubin Museum, offers an intimate survey of vintage images from the modern nations of India, Sri Lanka, Burma and Nepal.The three lead essays together with photographer biographies and techniques, present varied perspectives on photography's development of a unique vernacular culture. Ethnography, identity, integration and assimilation are some of the key notions that underlie practices of portraiture and domestic space - recording how an image may be perceived in our digital world today.Some of the leading photographers and studios presented are Felice Beato, Bourne & Shepherd, Johnnstone and Hoffmann, Gobind Ram Oodey Ram, Darogah Abba Ali, Raja Deen Dayal and Shapur Bhedwar.

Allegory and Illusion: Early Portrait Photography from South Asia (Alkazi Collection of Photography)

PINNEY, CHRISTOPHER

Citron, Beth

<p>Photography was introduced in India in 1840, soon after being patented in Europe in 1839. The pioneers of photography in India were employees of the English East India Company, whose chief functionaries understood that this could be an efficient tool for documenting geographical and topographical information, previously rendered through drawings and watercolours. Subsequently, the 'pioneers' of Indian photography, those inveterate western practitioners followed prescribed routes, conventional grids, and pictorial schemata in which the visualisation was constructed by a cultural mapping and a political programme; often fostered by cultural patrons. To be presented at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Belgium, the exhibition "Unveiling India: The Early Lens Men (1850-1910)" shines a light on pioneering photography in India through a selection of photos and negatives never before exhibited in Europe. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition, this volume offers a unique glimpse of the magnificent collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs from the Alkazi Foundation. Looking at the rare collection of the Wax Paper Negatives by Dr John Murray and Alexander Greenlaw, the images not only provide an insight into the early processes of picture making, but the visitor also journeys through time with the development of landscape photography. The works of Nicholas & Co, Samuel Bourne, Raja Deen Dayal & Sons etc. showcase the early commercial studios of the three presidencies of Colonial India -- Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.</p>

Unveiling India: The Early Lensmen 1850-1910

Depelchin, Davy

This publication reveals the pluralistic and raw visual samplings of Filmi Jagat, a found scrapbook that is reproduced in entirety as plates following three exploratory texts.

Filmi Jagat: A Scrap Book: Shared Universe Of Early Hindi Cinema

Humor & Entertainment

Mukherjee, Debashree

Bhaumik, Kaushik

Movies

Niyogi Books

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