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Photography was introduced in India by the British in the early 19th century. [ 1] The concept of photography spread to India at a fast pace after the invention, introduction, and publicization of the daguerreotype technology in 1839. [ 2] By 1840, advertisements in Calcutta by Thacker, Spink, & Co. for imported cameras started appearing in a ...
Homai Vyarawalla (9 December 1913 – 15 January 2012), commonly known by her pseudonym Dalda 13, was India 's first woman photojournalist. [ 1][ 2] She began her career in 1938 working for the Bombay Chronicle, capturing images of daily life in the city. Vyarawalla worked for the British Information Services from the 1940s until 1970 when she ...
Bourne & Shepherd was an Indian photographic studio and one of the oldest established photographic businesses in the world. [1] Established in 1863, [2] [3] [4] at its peak, it was the most successful commercial firm in 19th-and early 20th-century India, [5] [6] [7] with agencies all over India, and outlets in London and Paris, and also ran a ...
Harry Gruyaert. Harry Gruyaert (born 1941) is a Belgian photographer known for his images of India, Morocco and Egypt as well as of the west of Ireland [1] and for his use of colour. [2] [3] [4] He is a member of Magnum Photos. [5] His work has been published in a number of books, been exhibited widely and won the Kodak Prize.
Samuel Bourne (30 October 1834 – 24 April 1912) [1] was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years' work in India, from 1863 to 1870. [2] Together with Charles Shepherd, he set up Bourne & Shepherd first in Shimla in 1863 and later in Kolkata (Calcutta); the company closed in June 2016.
Sunil Janah (17 April 1918 — 21 June 2012) [ 1][ 2] was an Indian-American [ 3] photojournalist and documentary photographer who worked in India in the 1940s. Janah documented India's independence movement, its peasant and labour movements, famines and riots, rural and tribal life, as well as the years of rapid urbanization and industrialization.
The India Photo Archive Foundation is a Public Charitable Trust engaged in digitising, annotating, and preserving photographic archives. [1] This came out as a result of Aditya Arya Archive by Aditya Arya, a photographer in India. The Foundation has been active since 2009. [2]
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [ 1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right). The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances ...