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*[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app Luminous Lint website]A collaborative website sharing information on photography and photographers worldwide. For India related articles chose Connections from drop down box and add search term India in box immediately below.
*[http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/beato/  Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road]. An exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum. Felice Beato was in India 1858-60, and Burma 1887-1905.
*[http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/beato/  Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road]. An exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum. Felice Beato was in India 1858-60, and Burma 1887-1905.
**[http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704723104576061931702951172 Photograph: Hospital Shwebo, [Burma<nowiki>]</nowiki> with Different Descriptions of Ambulances, 1887 – 1897] Wall Street Journal.
**[http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704723104576061931702951172 Photograph: Hospital Shwebo, [Burma<nowiki>]</nowiki> with Different Descriptions of Ambulances, 1887 – 1897] Wall Street Journal.
*[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Thomas__Biggs/A/ Thomas Biggs] Served in the Bombay Artillery in 1842. He was appointed Government Photographer in 1854 with a commission to photograph architectural and archaeological sites. luminous-lint.com
*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.  
*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://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/John__Burke/A/ John Burke] luminous-lint.com. [http://web.archive.org/web/20090117080242/http://fsaijazuddin.pk/ArticleDetailsFull.aspx?op=E&NewsID=130 Some biographical details] by F S Aijazuddin. [http://www.afghanboxcamera.com/abcp_about_photographyinafghanistan.htm About Photography in Afghanistan] John Burke and other early photographers in Afghanistan. Afghan Box Camera Project. [http://library.brown.edu/collections/askb/burke.php Details] of some photographs held at the Brown University Library, Providence R I, USA, taken in Afghanistan in 1878. Retrieved 18 October 2014
* John Burke [http://web.archive.org/web/20090117080242/http://fsaijazuddin.pk/ArticleDetailsFull.aspx?op=E&NewsID=130 Some biographical details] by F S Aijazuddin. [http://www.afghanboxcamera.com/abcp_about_photographyinafghanistan.htm About Photography in Afghanistan] John Burke and other early photographers in Afghanistan. Afghan Box Camera Project. [http://library.brown.edu/collections/askb/burke.php Details] of some photographs held at the Brown University Library, Providence R I, USA, taken in Afghanistan in 1878. Retrieved 18 October 2014
*[http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/04/18/pioneer_photographer_deen_dayal_provides_a_portrait_of_india_siddiqui.html Pioneer photographer Deen Dayal provides a portrait of India] by Haroon Siddiqui  April 18 2013 thestar.com  Dayal (1844-1905) was a Hindu whose chief patron was the Muslim Nizam of Hyderabad , one of the richest men in the world, the ruler of the largest of India’s 565 princely states.
*[http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/04/18/pioneer_photographer_deen_dayal_provides_a_portrait_of_india_siddiqui.html Pioneer photographer Deen Dayal provides a portrait of India] by Haroon Siddiqui  April 18 2013 thestar.com  Dayal (1844-1905) was a Hindu whose chief patron was the Muslim Nizam of Hyderabad , one of the richest men in the world, the ruler of the largest of India’s 565 princely states.
**[http://ignca.nic.in/ex_0013.htm The Legacy of Raja Deen Dyal] ignca.nic.in
**[http://ignca.nic.in/ex_0013.htm The Legacy of Raja Deen Dyal] ignca.nic.in
**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22212009 Rare 19th Century Pictures of India] Examples of photographs by Raja Deendayal (1844-1905) on BBC news website.
**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22212009 Rare 19th Century Pictures of India] Examples of photographs by Raja Deendayal (1844-1905) on BBC news website.
*Captain R. B. Hill.  Probably Richard Barton Hill 1835-1873, who joined the Bengal Army in 1853. [http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search?ft=Captain%20R%20B%20Hill&s=accession 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/collection/the-collection-online/search?ft=Captain%20R%20B%20Hill&s=accession Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York collection of photographs 1850s]
*[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Willoughby_Wallace__Hooper/A/ Colonel Willoughby Wallace Hooper] Colonel in the 7th Madras Cavalry in 1858. Heading the Burma Expeditionary Force as Provost Marshal he photographed the campaign and his album ''A Series of One Hundred Photographs'' was published in 1887 luminous-lint.com
*[http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/A/ap_mccosh.htm John McCosh or MacCosh 1805-1885] Edinphoto.org.   
*[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]].   
**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]].   
**[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1962-04-3-294 Surgeon John McCosh, Bengal Medical Establishment, 1852 (c)] nam.ac.uk
**[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1962-04-3-294 Surgeon John McCosh, Bengal Medical Establishment, 1852 (c)] nam.ac.uk
*[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/John__Murray/A/ Dr John Murray] Bengal Medical Service 1833. Shortly after his promotion to surgeon in 1849, Murray took up amateur photography and soon formed a friendship with another doctor, John McCosh. luminous-lint.com
*[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/William_H__Pigou/A/ William H. Pigou]. Dr William Henry Pigou served in the Indian Medical Service in Bombay 1841-1858. Pigou succeeded Thomas Biggs as official Government Photographer, Bombay Presidency 1855-1857. luminous-lint.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140831215358/http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/md/content/studium/kultur/zbw/eshph/photoresearcher/photoresearcher_no13.pdf  "The Sachés: a family of photographers working in India during the 19th century"] by Stéphanie Roy Bharath ''PhotoResearcher ESHPh European Society for the History of Photography'' No 13, 2010 , page 4 (now archived). John Edward Saché (1824-1882), born in Prussia, arrived in Calcutta in late 1864, after working in the USA. [http://www.harappa.com/photographers/sachejohn.html John Edward Sache  1865-1882] harappa.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140831215358/http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/md/content/studium/kultur/zbw/eshph/photoresearcher/photoresearcher_no13.pdf  "The Sachés: a family of photographers working in India during the 19th century"] by Stéphanie Roy Bharath ''PhotoResearcher ESHPh European Society for the History of Photography'' No 13, 2010 , page 4 (now archived). John Edward Saché (1824-1882), born in Prussia, arrived in Calcutta in late 1864, after working in the USA. [http://www.harappa.com/photographers/sachejohn.html John Edward Sache  1865-1882] harappa.com
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaeus_Tripe Linnaeus Tripe] Wikipedia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100809185535/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/features/photo_focus/tripe/biography/index.html  Linnaeus Tripe], a biography by the V&A Museum, now an archived webpage (retrieved 29 May 2014).
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaeus_Tripe Linnaeus Tripe] Wikipedia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100809185535/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/features/photo_focus/tripe/biography/index.html  Linnaeus Tripe], a biography by the V&A Museum, now an archived webpage (retrieved 29 May 2014).

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See also, Artist.

Photographers in India include John Edward Saché (studios in towns across northern India); G.K. Vale, Bangalore; R.B. Holmes of Peshawar; D.J. Divechia of Rawalpindi; Guerra & Sons, Mhow, Central India; Herzog and Higgins of Mhow, Raja Deen Dayal etc[1]

Photographer William D. Holmes was the brother in law of John Edward Sache, one of the most prominent 19th century European photographers in India. Holmes joined Sache in Lucknow in 1877 and founded a studio in his own name in 1889.[2]

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"


Related articles

Recommended Reading

  • 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 "In pursuit of the past" The Hindu Metro Plus Coimbatore November 29, 2004, and the article Chasing the photographer, also from The Hindu (Chennai Metro Plus 4 May 2009). (This book has been favourably reviewed in FIBIS Journal no 21)
The Nicholas Brothers and A. T. W. Penn: Photographers of South India 1855 – 1885 by Christopher Penn (2014). Review by Richard Morgan – page 51 FIBIS Journal Number 33 (Spring 2015). the Nicholas Brothers were John and James Perratt Nicholas. A further review from "British photographic history" also mentions Dr Alexander Hunter, Linnaeus Tripe, John Parting, Edmund David Lyon, Willoughby Wallace Hooper and Samuel Bourne, in the Madras region.
  • 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

External Links

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Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier, 1887-1908 by John Claude White. 1909 Archive.org
  • Wiele & Klein, Madras and Ootacamund
    • Wiele & Klein Studio Advertisement A Trade advertisement for the Madras and Ootacamund studio of Wiele & Klein, "Artists, Photographers and Photo Engravers" britishphotohistory.ning.com
    • "The German Photographers of Madras" by Gabrielle Landwehr Part 1 , Part 2 (scroll down) Madras Musings Volume XVIII No. 14, November 1-15, 2008 and No. 15, November 16-30, 2008
    • Madras on glass 9 July 2003 The Hindu
  • The Williamson Photographic Collection is housed in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge Yale (USA). Frederick Williamson was a British Political Officer stationed in Sikkim, Bhutan, and Tibet in the 1930s who was an ardent photographer. Williamson's 16mm films from the 1930s may be viewed online.

Historical books online

  • "Photographic Notes" Appendix A, page 259 Lights & Shades of Hill Life in the Afghan and Hindu Highlands of the Punjab, a Contrast by F St J Gore 1895 Archive.org. With photographs by the author.

References

  1. Feltham, John A New Book about early photographers in India Rootsweb India- British-Raj Mailing List 10 Jun 2012 and Feltham, John et al. Photographers Rootsweb India- British-Raj Mailing List 11 Jun 2012 et al. Retrieved 18 October 2014
  2. Antiquedogs (Lauren) Uniform - Lucknow, c.1880? Victorian Wars Forum 14 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014