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Text fr., engl. - Photographs in this catalogue are by Colin Murray, and are from an album which belonged to the French diplomat Comte Julien de Rochechouart.

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Haupteintrag. Einzelbeiträge dieses Werkes wurden in PhotoLit aufgenommen, mit Ausnahme von: Vorwort (Thomas Theye), Grußworte (Günter Coenen, Rolf H. Krauss, Matthias Samuel Laubscher), Einführungen zu den Podiumsdikussionen (Karl-Heinz Kohl, Peter Thiele), Diskussionsergebnisse (Thomas Theye).

169 images by 53 photographers. Incl. biographies. - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 07.2008.

Text nederl., engl. Incl. biographies. - Catalogue published in 1994 for a photography exhibition in the Rotterdam Museum of Ethnology. The photographs are from the museum’s own collection. The softcover catalogue, measuring 21 x 25 cm. has 112 pages and contains 76 photographs from India, Sri Lanka, Siam, Cambodia, Burma and China. The catalogue is divided in three parts: 1. Up till page 50 : an essay by J.Falconer & S. Wachlin on early photography in the different regions; 2. From page 50 till 95 : the photographs; 3. From page 96 till page 110: short biographical notes on more than 500 photographers of that time in that region.

Text engl. - “A very well documented book produced to accompany the important collection of antique Indian photographs exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. The images include temples, landscapes, native peoples and princes. Together with scholarly essays and bibliography.” (Boekraam.nl. 10.2008).

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"A touring exhibition in India in 1995-96 presenting 150 facsimile photographs selected from the archives of the British Library’s Oriental and India Office Collections." (Boekraam.nl. 10.2008).

„After the public announcement of the invention of the camera in 1839, photography spread swiftly round the world, and by the early 1850s the medium had become well-established in the Indian subcontinent. In a land characterized by the variety and splendour of its architecture and landscapes, and the diversity of its people and customs, India offered the photographic artist an unsurpassed range of subject matter. Drawn from the collections of The British Library, and Howard and Jane Ricketts, this work is illustrated with some of the finest photographs produced in India during the latter half of the 19th century, many never previously reproduced.“ (Boekraam.nl. 10.2008).

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Text engl. - “The photographs in this exhibition present a cumulative impression of China, through the prism of landscapes, architecture, people and historical events, photographed by and for westerners over three-quarters of a century, from the closing phases of the Second Opium or Arrow War in 1860, through to the work of amateur hotographers in the 1930s. The motivations behind the production of these images were as varied as their content. The unique historical importance of Felice Beato’s photographic documentation of the Anglo-French Expeditionary Force which occupied Peking in 1860, was inspired both by commercial opportunism and a personal obsession with documenting scenes of conflict. While the photographers who followed in his wake were primarily inspired by the prospect of commercial gain, the best of the work produced in succeeding decades forms a compelling witness to the European fascination with Chinese life and culture. The more informal work of amateur photographers in the twentieth century perhaps lacks something of the technical and compositional skill of the professional photographers of earlier decades, but whether taken for private amusement, as an archaeologist’s visual notebook, or a reminder of places visited in the course of business, these varied viewpoints in total present a vivid expression of the inexhaustible variety and interest of China to European eyes.”

Text engl. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - „From its earliest beginnings in the 1840s up to its democratization as a widespread leisure pursuit, photography was swept along by a tide of artistic and entrepreneurial activity that gathered pace throughout the nineteenth century. Both as an art form and a social document, the photograph quickly took on a critical role as the primary means of visual expression in the modern age. - Points of View brings together, for the first time, a selection of images from the British Library’s unique photography collections, examining the history, diversity, and influence of the medium from its invention and early years up until the coming of the twentieth century. Beginning with the work of Talbot and including some of our most celebrated photographic pioneers—Francis Frith, Felix Teynard, Samuel Bourne, and Peter Henry Emerson among them—this volume focuses on the question Who was taking the photograph and why? Ultimately the answer is found in the rise of mass market interest, the increasing role of technology, and the emergence of this thrilling new discipline amid rapid scientific, social, and industrial progress.“ (www.amazon.com/Points-View-Capturing-Century-Photographs/dp/0712350829; seen 02.2018).

Text engl. - Incl. glossary and short biographies.

Text engl., dari, pushto. - Exhibition catalogue in conjunction with the exhibition Afghanistan observed 1830-1920 held in the Queen’s Palace of Baghe Babur, Kabul and the Chahar Suq cistern in the old city of Herat during 2010.

Text engl. Glossary of terms. Selected Bibliography. Contributors. Index. - Nebeneintrag. - John Falconer work for the British Library.