Photographer
External Links
Websites
- Indian Raj British Indian Photography 1845-1947 (Harappa.com)
- Photoraj
- Tony Davis’ Antiq-Photo Biographies contains many names of photographers who worked in India, Burma and Ceylon in the 19th century. The site also has many photographs of India
- Afghanistan Old Photos.
Scroll down the page to The Oldest Photos of Afghanistan taken by John Burke.
Articles
- Photography in India from the International Institute for Asian Studies(IIAS)-Netherlands
- Photography, archaeology and afternoon tea. IIAS. A review of the book A Vision of Splendour, Indian Heritage in the Photographs of Jean Philippe Vogel, 1901- 1913. A second review of the same book
- Ethnographical Photography in India 1850-1900 by John Falconer
- Photography in Colonial and Post Colonial India by Megan Joyce
Books
Photoraj’s Books webpage includes details of the following:
- India: Pioneering Photographers, 1850-1900 by John Falconer 2002
- 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 Muree, 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. Read the Preface to the book
- 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.
- Raj Photographers, a link to five books, including three published by Pagoda Tree Press
- 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.