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*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120624/spectrum/main1.htm Portrait of an Era] tribuneindia.com. Portrait photography in India by Pramod Kumar KG  
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120624/spectrum/main1.htm Portrait of an Era] tribuneindia.com. Portrait photography in India by Pramod Kumar KG  
*[http://www.answers.com/topic/early-photography-in-burma Early photography in Burma] www.answers.com  
*[http://www.answers.com/topic/early-photography-in-burma Early photography in Burma] www.answers.com  
***[http://www.simonnorfolk.com/burkenorfolk/conversation.html  Burke and Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk: Conversation with Simon Norfolk]. John Burke (1843?-1900) was the first ever photographer to make pictures in Afghanistan. simonnorfolk.com


===Books===
===Recommended Reading===
 
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3791327860?ie=UTF8&tag=faminbriindso-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=3791327860 ''From Kashmir to Kabul''] by Omar A. Khan (2002). The harsh beauty of this region has been luring photographers since the Victorian age, the most famous of whom were two Irishmen William Baker and John Burke. The book chronicles their early days in Peshawar and their move to Murree, the Himalayan hill station on the border of Kashmir. It follows their documenting of the Afghan Wars, some of the earliest war photography, and their return to the plains of Lahore, where they continued to photograph the region’s people and landscape.<br> [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qKzMQTgtNaIC Limited View Google Books ].  Read the [http://web.archive.org/web/20090117080242/http://fsaijazuddin.pk/ArticleDetailsFull.aspx?op=E&NewsID=130 Preface] to the book (now archived) by  F S Aijazuddin, which contains biographical details. Read a [http://www.kashmirtokabul.com/histofphoto.html review] of the book by Sophie Gordon in  History of Photography 2003. Available at the [[British Library]]
**[http://www.simonnorfolk.com/burkenorfolk/conversation.html  Burke and Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk: Conversation with Simon Norfolk]. John Burke (1843?-1900) was the first ever photographer to make pictures in Afghanistan. simonnorfolk.com
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/189020661X?ie=UTF8&tag=faminbriindso-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=189020661X  ''In the Shadow of the Himalayas: Tibet - Bhutan - Nepal - Sikkim A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908''] by Kurt Meyer (2006). John Claude White (1853-1918) was a civil engineer by education, a colonial administrator by profession, and a photographer by vocation. Read a [http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/projectteam/turin/downloads/review_Meyer.pdf review] (pdf) of the book which contains biographical information,  by Mark Turin of the University of Cambridge. Available at the [[British Library]]. John Claude White was the author of ''Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the north-east frontier, 1887-1908'' published 1909 [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924024155206 Archive.org]


*[http://www.new.fibis.org/products-page/3-other-books-about-colonial-india/biographies/bkx-0054-in-pursuit-of-the-past/ ''In Pursuit of the Past''] by FIBIS member Christopher Penn about Albert Thomas Watson Penn, one of the pioneering photographers of South India, who established his business at [[Ootacamund]]. Read the article [http://web.archive.org/web/20070903193745/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2004/11/29/stories/2004112900890100.htm In pursuit of the past] from The Hindu (now archived), and the article [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article641597.ece Chasing the photographer], also from The Hindu (Chennai Metro Plus 4 May 2009). (This book has been favourably reviewed in [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=FIBIS_Journals FIBIS Journal no 21])
*[http://www.new.fibis.org/products-page/3-other-books-about-colonial-india/biographies/bkx-0054-in-pursuit-of-the-past/ ''In Pursuit of the Past''] by FIBIS member Christopher Penn about Albert Thomas Watson Penn, one of the pioneering photographers of South India, who established his business at [[Ootacamund]]. Read the article [http://web.archive.org/web/20070903193745/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2004/11/29/stories/2004112900890100.htm In pursuit of the past] from The Hindu (now archived), and the article [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article641597.ece Chasing the photographer], also from The Hindu (Chennai Metro Plus 4 May 2009). (This book has been favourably reviewed in [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=FIBIS_Journals FIBIS Journal no 21])
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0921788037?ie=UTF8&tag=faminbriindso-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=0921788037 ''Sepia Prints: Memoirs of a Missionary''] by Viola Wiebe and Marilyn Wiebe Dodge (1990) is one of the few books to highlight the large amount of photographic material available from Christian archives and missionaries active in colonial India. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=62dc3tmfwAQC Limited View Google Books].  See also [[Missionary#Other_External_Links|Missionary]].
*Also refer books published by [[Publishers#Pagoda_Tree_Press| Pagoda Tree Press]]
*The book ''Early British Photography in India'', published 1992, is available at the [[ British Library]] . It was originally published as ''History of Photography''  Volume 16, No. 4 1992 pages 299-413


*''Early Photographs of Ladakh'', edited with an introduction by Hugh Rayner, published 2013. This book has been reviewed by Robert Charnock in'' [[FIBIS Journal]] Number 30 (Autumn 2013)'',  page 46
*''Early Photographs of Ladakh'', edited with an introduction by Hugh Rayner, published 2013. This book has been reviewed by Robert Charnock in'' [[FIBIS Journal]] Number 30 (Autumn 2013)'',  page 46


===Individuals===
===Individuals===
*Samuel Bourne. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bourne Wikipedia]  [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3022C-E Photographs in Cambridge]. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/photohistorytimeline/6232958024/in/set-72157610082277020/  Photograph by Samuel Bourne - Lake, Nynee Tal, 1860] flickr.com.  Also refer [[Publishers#Pagoda_Tree_Press| Pagoda Tree Press]]
*Samuel Bourne. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bourne Wikipedia]  [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3022C-E Photographs in Cambridge]. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/photohistorytimeline/6232958024/in/set-72157610082277020/  Photograph by Samuel Bourne - Lake, Nynee Tal, 1860] flickr.com.   
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PJ8DHBay4_EC&pg=PA911 John McCosh] in ''Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography, Volume 1'', by John Hannavy (2007) page 911 (Limited View Google Books). [http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/A/ap_mccosh.htm John McCosh or MacCosh 1805-1885] Edinphoto.org.  There is an article  "The Laboratory of Mankind: John McCosh and the Beginning of Photography in British India" by Ray McKenzie, in ''History of Photography'', Volume 11, No. 2, April-June 1987, pages 109-118. This quarterly journal is available at the [[British Library]].  Also refer [[Doctors and Surgeons]]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PJ8DHBay4_EC&pg=PA911 John McCosh] in ''Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography, Volume 1'', by John Hannavy (2007) page 911 (Limited View Google Books). [http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/A/ap_mccosh.htm John McCosh or MacCosh 1805-1885] Edinphoto.org.  There is an article  "The Laboratory of Mankind: John McCosh and the Beginning of Photography in British India" by Ray McKenzie, in ''History of Photography'', Volume 11, No. 2, April-June 1987, pages 109-118. This quarterly journal is available at the [[British Library]].  Also refer [[Doctors and Surgeons]]
* Captain R. B. Hill.  Probably Richard Barton Hill 1835-1873, who joined the Bengal Army in 1853. [http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections?ft=*&amp;who=Captain+R.+.+Hill Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York collection of photographs 1850s]
* Captain R. B. Hill.  Probably Richard Barton Hill 1835-1873, who joined the Bengal Army in 1853. [http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections?ft=*&amp;who=Captain+R.+.+Hill Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York collection of photographs 1850s]

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See also, Artist.

FIBIS resources

  • Wendy Pratt, "Life with Tea in India: the diaries of Samuel Cleland Davidson" FIBIS Journal No 24 (Autumn 2010), pages 36-46. For details of how to access this article, see FIBIS Journals. Samuel Cleland Davidson was a tea planter who was a keen amateur photographer. An example of his work is "On parade"


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Recommended Reading

  • Early Photographs of Ladakh, edited with an introduction by Hugh Rayner, published 2013. This book has been reviewed by Robert Charnock in FIBIS Journal Number 30 (Autumn 2013), page 46

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