PARSI BOY

Hand-coloured photograph on paper
14 cm x 10.2 cm   |  5.5 in x 4 in
c.1930
StoryLTD Ref No: 37195
  • Rs 4,000 (exc GST)
  • $69

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About Vintage Photography

Whence Realism ............ Period Photography in India.

Photography first made its inroads into India as early as the 1840`s. With this technology , representational accuracy could be ascertained for the first time. The, then British Government in India laid great emphasis on this development , as a method of documentation and precise determination .Landscapes , Archeological sites , Durbars , Princes , Ethnic Tribes and all came under the lens , photographed , documented and preserved for posterity. Not only the Colonial Masters , but Princes and common people became amateur and professional photographers . It was the " great innovation "of the 19th century. It`s effects touched Fine Art , Empire Building , humanities and cultural understanding . Distances started coming closer and realism came to be the order.

Samuel Bourne, Macfarlane , Edmund David Lyon , William Henry Pigou became the new pioneers of Indian Photography .Even Indian Princes such as Ram Singh of Jaipur became Amateur Photographers , while the Nizam and Udaipur had their own private photography studios . Raja Deen Dayal , became a Legend in Indian Photography , starting with his studios in Secundrabad and Indore. Taking the challenge photography placed in front of fine artists , they took to colouring portraits and landscape photographs blending the traditional with the modern.

With the coming of Digital Photography , the traditional forms have been phased out and they have moved to the realm of Art and collectible s. Major Museums all over the world are now collecting period photography.

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