Title & Author:

The Marshall albums : photography and archaeology / editor, Sudeshna Guha ; preface [by] B.D. Chattopadhyaya ; contributors: Sudeshna Guha [and others].

Publication:

New Delhi : Mapin : Alkazi Collection of Photography ; Ocean Township, N.J. : Grantha, 2010.

Description:

288 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index.
Archaeology, photography, histories / Sudeshna Guha -- Orientalism and archaeology: writing the history of South Asia, 1600-1860 / Michael S. Dodson -- The many lives of the Sanchi Stupa in colonial India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Photographs in Sir John Marshall's archaeology / Sudeshna Guha -- 'Buddhist' photography / Christopher Pinney -- Cunningham, Marshall and the monks: an early historic city as a Buddhist landscape / Robert Harding -- John Marshall and the photographic collection / Sudeshna Guha -- Seminal excavations undertaken during Marshall's directorship of the Archaeological Survey of India / Sudeshna Guha.

Summary:

The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts is a registered charitable trust based in New Delhi. It is primarily dedicated to the exploration and study of the cultural history of India.
Over the last 30 years, Ebrahim Alkazi, the Foundation's Chairman, has amassed a private collection of photographs known as The Alkazi Collection of Photography (www.acparchives.com), an archive of nineteenth- and early-twentieth century photographic prints from South and South-East Asia, amounting to over 90,000 images. The core of the Collection comprises works in the form of photographic albums, single prints, paper negatives and glass plate negatives from India, Burma, Ceylon, Nepal, Afghanistan and Tibet. Almost every region with a history touched by the British Raj is represented. These vintage prints document sociopolitical life in the subcontinent through the linked fields of history, architecture, anthropology, topography and archaeology, beginning from the 1840s and leading up to the rise of modern India and the Independence Movement of 1947.
The photographic archive has been digitally catalogued and documented, and is accessed by researchers, curators, historians and teams of scholars. The material is now being made available to a larger academic community and the general public through a series of publications that are accompanied by exhibitions and seminars. Each volume, under the editorship of a specialist in the field, examines a particular region or topic represented in the archive, encouraging cross-disciplinary approaches and interpretations. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9788189995324 (Mapin)
8189995324 (Mapin)
9781890206451 (Grantha)
1890206458 (Grantha)

Subject:

Marshall, John, Sir, 1876-1958 Photograph collections.
Marshall, John, Sir, 1876-1958
Marshall, John Hubert 1876-1958
Marshall, John Hubert, (1876-1958; Sir) Collections de photographies.
Sepia International Inc. and the Alkazi Collection of Photography Catalogues.
Archaeology India.
Excavations (Archaeology) India.
Archéologie Inde.
Antiquities
Archaeology
Excavations (Archaeology)
Photograph collections
Fotografie
Ausgrabung
Archäologie
Sammlung
Archäologische Stätte
Antiquités Inde Photographies.
Expéditions archéologiques Inde Photographies.
India Antiquities Pictorial works.
Inde Antiquités Ouvrages illustrés.
India
Indien

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Guha, Sudeshna.
Chattopadhyaya, Brajadulal, 1939-2022.
Sepia International Inc. and the Alkazi Collection of Photography.

Photography and archaeology

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273097
Call No.: BIB 206560
Status: Available