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See also, [[Artist]].
Photographers in India include John Edward Saché (studios in towns across northern India); G.K. Vale, [[Bangalore]]; [[:Category:R B Holmes|R.B. Holmes]] of [[Peshawar]]; D.J. Divechia of [[Rawalpindi]]; [[:Category:Guerra and Sons|Guerra & Sons]], [[Mhow]], Central India; Herzog and Higgins of Mhow, Raja Deen Dayal etc.<ref>Feltham, John [https://listsweb.archive.org/web/20210210020522/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/listlistindexes/emails?listname=india-british-raj.rootsweb.com/&thread/=987043/ A New Book about early photographers in India] ''Rootsweb India- British-Raj Mailing List'' 10 Jun 2012 , archived and Feltham, John et al. [https://listsweb.archive.org/web/20210321025814/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/listlistindexes/emails?listname=india-british-raj.rootsweb.com/&thread/=987038/ Photographers] ''Rootsweb India- British-Raj Mailing List'' 11 Jun 2012 et al. Scroll and expand entries, which have been contracted. Retrieved 26 June 2019archived.</ref>
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.<ref>Antiquedogs (Lauren) [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9787#p48205 Uniform - Lucknow, c.1880?] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 14 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014</ref>
==FIBIS resources==
==Related articles==
* [[Clifton & Co, Photographers (Bombay)]]
*[[:Category:Postcard_Publishers | Postcard Publishers]] = Image Galleries of and Articles relating to early postcards postcard publishers of India.
*[[:Category:Bremner photographic postcards|Photographic postcards of celebrated photographer Fred Bremner]]
====Photographs====
*Search the British Library’s [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/index.html Online Gallery] *[https://www.oldindianphotos.in Old Indian Photos: Historical Photographs of Indian Subcontinent] –tagged for various categories. oldindianphotos.in
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00 History of Pakistan]’s photostream on [http://www.flickr.com Flickr]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFRT_2ZJfPc ''Perspectives of Early Photographers in Kashmir 1861-1920''] by Hugh Rayner 21 Jan 2023. YouTube video presentation. The talk is illustrated with photographs taken primarily from the Hugh A. Rayner Collection of Early Indian Photography.
===Articles===
*"Photography in India" Page 10, ''Newsletter 44'', Summer 2007 from the International Institute for Asian Studies(IIAS)-Netherlands [https://issuu.com/iias/docs/iias_nl_44 issuu.com version], or download the Newsletter from [httphttps://www.ranadasguptaiias.comasia/the-newsletter/notesnewsletter-44-summer-2007 iias.asp?note_id=73 Pioneers of Indian Photographyasia] by John Falconer
*[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc93303/m2/1/high_res_d/Joyce_Megan.pdf Photography in Colonial and Post Colonial India] (pdf) by Megan Joyce
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151016190147/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120708/jsp/opinion/story_15689712.jsp Lens on the Great Game - Earliest commercial photographers in the North-West Frontier] by Malavika Karlekar July 8 , 2012 ''The Telegraph, Calcutta'', now an archived webpage.
*[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.bjp-online.com/2016/05/early-british-colonial-travellers-photograph-19th-century-india/ "Early British Colonial Travellers Show Earliest Images of India"] by Ciaran Thapar, 5 May 2016. ''British Journal of Photography'' website, category Exhibitions. The work of Linnaeus Tripe, Dr John Murray and Samuel Bourne. [http://prahladbubbar.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tripe-Murray-Bourne-website.pdf Photographs from the Exhibition]
*[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.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20150529070358/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704723104576061931702951172 Photograph: Hospital Shwebo, [Burma<nowiki>]</nowiki> with descriptions of different Ambulances, 1887 – 1897] Wall Street Journal, now an archived webpage.
**[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2015/09/the-marriage-of-east-and-west-conservation-of-a-photographic-album-from-burma.html Conservation of a Photographic Album from Burma]. British Library Collection Care blog.
*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.tasveerarts.com/exhibitions/Bourne/ Bourne & Shepherd : Figures In Time] An exhibition sourced from the photographic collection of MAP (Museum of Art & Photography, Bangalore) tasveerarts.com. [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36137287 Photographs from the exhibition] 7 May 2016 bbc.com. [http://scroll.in/article/808442/in-pictures-19th-century-india-through-the-eyes-of-samuel-bourne Article] by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri May 31, 2016. Scroll.in. [https://www.scoopwhoop.com/The-Oldest-Functional-Photo-Studio-In-the-World-Shuts-Down-In-Kolkata-After-176-Years/ "The Oldest Functional Photo Studio In the World Shuts Down In Kolkata After 176 Years"] by Rakhi Bose Jun 17, 2016. scoopwhoop.com.
*Fred Bremner. [http://old.harappa.com/bremner/index.html Fred Bremner’s Indian Years 1882-1923] by Brij Bhushan Sharma. old.harappa.com. Includes links to a number of essays. There is no link for Essay 1, but it is available in [https://web.archive.org/web/20141209053003/http://www.harappa.com/bremner/photography-baluchistan.html an archived form]. Includes quotes from his autobiography ''My Forty Years in India'', published 1940, (now available in a reprint edition<ref> [http://www.pagodatreepress.com/40yearsinindia-b.html ''My Forty Years in India'' by Fred Bremner] Pagoda Tree Press</ref>) The website includes a series of 9 Indian soldier images from his pictorial album ''Types of the British Indian Army 1895'', which contained c 60 images.:[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Fred__Bremner/A/ Fred Bremner] luminous-lint.com. Includes commercial details.:Fred Bremner also published a number of books in respect of British Army regiments which included a short history but mainly consisted of photographs. Three of these are available at the British Library, and others <ref>Sourced from the book [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wmm-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 ''A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army''] by Arthur S. White. Google Books</ref> perhaps may be available at Regimental Museums or Archives, but otherwise appear to be rare.:*''2nd Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders} Peshawar India 1907''. Photographs and publication by F Bremner:*''The 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment, illustrated. With brief historical account of the services of the Regiment, etc''. Quetta : Fred Bremner, 1902. British Library reference UIN: BLL01004039706:*''The 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment illustrated. With brief historical account of the services of the Regiment. Ferozepore ... 1906''. Lahore : Fred. Bremner, [1906]. British Library UIN: BLL01001096457:*''2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders Peshawar India 1907'' Lahore: Bremner 1907:*''2nd Battalion Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers Ferozepore India 1908''. Lahore: Bremner 1908:*''The 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment ... With brief historical account of the services of the regiment''. Quetta : Fred Bremner, 1899. British Library UIN: BLL01004050083:*South Lancashire Regiment. ''1st Battalion Prince of Wales’s Volunteers Lahore 1910''. Lahore: Bremner 1910. :*''1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Quetta Baluchistan 1903''. Lahore: F Bremner 1907:*West Yorkshire Regiment. ''1st Battalion Prince of Wales Own. Mian –Mir and Dalhousie, Punjab 1906''. Lahore F Bremner 1906 and ''1st Battalion Prince of Wales Own. Rawalpindi 1910''. Lahore: F Bremner 1910:*''1st Battalion Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment, Quetta Baluchistan 1899''. Quetta: F Bremner 1899:*''1st Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, Quetta Baluchistan 1907''. Lahore: Bremner 1907.*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. [httphttps://library.brown.edu/info/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.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20171214074733/http://ignca.nic.in:80/ex_0013.htm The Legacy of Raja Deen Dyal] ignca.nic.in, now an archived webpage.
**[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. [httphttps://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collectionsearch-onlineresults#!/search?ftq=Captain%20R20%22R.%20B.%20Hill&s=accession %22 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York collection of photographs 1850s]. If link is not permanent, use the search term "Captain R. B. Hill".*[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Oscar_Jean-Baptiste__Mallitte/ Oscar Jean-Baptiste Mallitte] (luminous-lint.com) was a French surgeon turned photographer who arrived in Calcutta in 1857. [http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/60834/oscar-mallitte-the-planting-manufacture-of-indigo-in-india-29-photographic-views-by-oscar-mallitte-1877/ The Planting & Manufacture of Indigo in India. 29 Photographic views by Oscar Mallitte [1877<nowiki>]</nowiki>] (although fewer images are available online). J Paul Getty Museum. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfDyvmWxJlk YouTube video] , same images.
*[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]].
**[httphttps://wwwcollection.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/ John Murray] (luminous-lint.com) "...is probably the most important photographer of nineteenth century India". Bengal Medical Service 1832-1871. Took up amateur photography 1849 and soon formed a friendship with another doctor, John McCosh (see immediately above). [https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/103KD7 Getty Museum page] with images.
*[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_focusarticles/linnaeus-tripe/biography/index.html -life-and-work Linnaeus Tripe], a biography article on life and works by the V&A Museum, now an archived webpage (retrieved 29 May 2014).*John Paul White. [http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/a-daughter-of-the-empire/family/jcw-career John Claude White - career] Kings’ College London. :[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329054352/http://newswatchvoices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/21/castles-in-the-air-experiences-and-journeys-in-unknown-bhutan/ "Castles in the Air: Experiences and Journeys in Unknown Bhutan"] by David Braun September 21, 2014 National Geographic, now an archived webpage. Article and photographs of Bhutan by John Claude White republished from the April 1914 issue of ''National Geographic Magazine''
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024155206 ''Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier, 1887-1908''] by John Claude White. 1909 Archive.org
*Wiele & Klein, Madras and Ootacamund
*[https://archive.org/stream/lightsshadesofhi00gore#page/258/mode/2up "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.
*[https://archive.org/details/lastempirephotog0000unse/page/n5 ''The Last Empire : photography in British India, 1855-1911'']. Texts by Ainslie Thomas Embree and Clark Worswick. 1976 Archive.org Lending Library. "Accompanies an exhibition organized by the Asia House Gallery of the Asia Society [London?] for the summer of 1976."
*[http://pahar.in/pahar/2002-from-kashmir-to-kabul-the-photographs-of-john-burke-and-william-baker-1860-1900-by-khan-pdf/ ''From Kashmir to Kabul: The photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900''] by Omar Khan 2002. Download from Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). Includes chapters about [[Peshawar]], [[Murree]], [[Kashmir]], the [[2nd Afghan War| Second Afghan War]], [[Lahore]].
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