Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860

Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860

 
Captain Linnaeus Tripe (1822 1902) occupies a special place in the history of 19th-century photography for the outstanding body of work he produced in India and Burma (now Myanmar) in the 1850s. Introduced to photography by those who saw it as a pastime, he recognised that it could be an effective tool for conveying information about unknown cultures. Under the auspices of the East India Company, he took many photographs of Buddhist and Hindu architecture and dramatic landscapes not seen before in the West. His military training gave his work a striking aesthetic and formal rigor and helped him achieve remarkably consistent results, despite the challenges that India's heat and humidity posed to photographic chemistry. This sumptuous volume features photographs from Tripe's two major expeditions: to Burma in 1854 and to southeast India in 1857. Essays explore the evolution of his practice and the importance of the sites he recorded, while maps and a chronology provide an overview of his life and travels. AUTHOR: Roger Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester. Crispin Branfoot is Senior Lecturer in South Asian Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Sarah Greenough is Senior Curator and Head of the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art. Malcolm Daniel is Curator in Charge at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 100 illustrations

Format: Hardcover, 228 pages

Age Range: 0+

Dimensions: 27.9 x 30.7 x 3.1 centimeters (1.86 kg)

Writer: Roger Taylor, Crispin Branfoot, Sarah Greenough

GTIN: 9783791353814

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