Photographer

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"

Related articles

• Clifton & Co, Photographers (Bombay)
• Postcard Publishers = Galleries of early postcards of India.
• Photographic postcards of celebrated photographer Fred Bremner

External Links

Websites

General

• Indian Raj British Indian Photography 1845-1947 (Harappa.com)
• 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.
• The Tibet Album -British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950 including Photographers. This site provides access to the photograph collections of two British museums - the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) and the British Museum (London).
• British Raj List post and thread about photographers in India. Names mentioned 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 (photograph of the studio) Raja Deen Dayal etc

Photographs

• Search the British Library’s Online Gallery
• Old Indian Photos –divided into various categories.
• History of Pakistan’s photostream on Flickr
• Afghanistan Old Photos. Scroll down the page to the Oldest Photos of Afghanistan taken by John Burke.
• India, Pakistan Postcards from Images of Asia c 1910

Articles

• Photography in India (pdf) from the International Institute for Asian Studies(IIAS)-Netherlands
• Photography, archaeology and afternoon tea (pdf) 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, which is available at the British Library
• Ethnographical Photography in India 1850-1900 by John Falconer
• Pioneers of Indian Photography by John Falconer
• Photography in Colonial and Post Colonial India (pdf) by Megan Joyce
• The Coming of Photography in India by Christopher Pinney 2008 cscsarchive.org
• Portrait of an Era tribuneindia.com. Portrait photography in India by Pramod Kumar KG
• Early photography in Burma www.answers.com

Books

• 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.
  Limited View Google Books . Read the Preface to the book (now archived) by F S Aijazuddin, which contains biographical details. Read a review of the book by Sophie Gordon in History of Photography 2003. Available at the British Library
  • 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
• 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 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 Archive.org

• 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 from The Hindu (now archived), 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)

• 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. Limited View Google Books. See also Missionary.

• Also refer books published by 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

Individuals

• Samuel Bourne. Wikipedia Photographs in Cambridge. Photograph by Samuel Bourne - Lake, Nynee Tal, 1860 flickr.com. Also refer Pagoda Tree Press
• John McCosh in Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography, Volume 1, by John Hannavy (2007) page 911 (Limited View Google Books). 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
• "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. John Edward Saché (1824-1882), born in Prussia, arrived in Calcutta in late 1864, after working in the USA. A blog by Hugh Ashley Raynor.John Edward Sache 1865-1882 harappa.com
• Linnaeus Tripe, a biography by the V&A Museum. Wikipedia
• 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.
• This link from the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim mentions some of the photographers in Sikkim.
• 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
• 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.
  • Between Princely India and the British Raj: The Photography of Raja Deen Dayal. Exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum April 20, 2013 to January 12, 2014
  • Rare 19th Century Pictures of IndiaExamples of photographs by Raja Deendayal (1844-1905) on BBC news website.