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Category Archives: Photography – India

Pioneer Photographer Deen Dayal Provides a Portrait of India

22 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by StudiesIslamica in Exhibitions - North America, Photography - India

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Deen Dayal

He was not a maharaja — great king — as the major Hindu rulers in British colonial India were called. He was a raja, but one without a kingdom. Deen Dayal, one of the most accomplished photographers of the 19th century, had the title of Raja Mussavir, king of photography. Canadians could call him the Karsh of India, a master of portraiture. Dayal’s photos of British rulers and Indian royalty give us a rare glimpse into a bygone world. The first full-fledged exhibition of his iconic pictures opens at the Royal Ontario Museum Sunday [April 21st, 2013].

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Photo Essay: Rare 19th Century Pictures of India

Rare Album of the Earliest Indian Photographs from 1849 to be Sold at Bonhams, London

05 Tuesday Feb 2013

Posted by StudiesIslamica in Auctions - United Kingdom, Photography - India

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Indian photographsA wealthy young man having fun on a tour of India some 163 years ago, and one of the first to photograph the country compiled an album of photographs which will be sold by Bonhams on March 19th, 2013 for an estimated £40,000 to £60,000. Alexis De La Grange’s album offers 49 architectural views, most of which are Mughal, in northern India.

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