Main entry:

Dewan, Deepali, author.

Title & Author:

Raja Deen Dayal : artist-photographer in 19th-century India / Deepali Dewan and Deborah Hutton.

Publication:

[New Delhi, India] : The Alkazi Collection of Photography ; [Ahmedabad, India] : in association with Mapin Publishing, 2013.

Description:

230 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
"Simultaneously published in the United States of America in 2013 by Grantha Corporation ..."--Page following title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230).
Public works and princely states / Deepali Dewan -- Views of the Nizam's dominions / Deborah Hutton -- Royal and viceregal encounters / Deepali Dewan -- Images of the hunt / Deborah Hutton -- Elite life in Hyderabad and Secunderabad / Deborah Hutton -- Interiors and interiority / Deepali Dewan -- Appendices. Timeline ; Dating ; Signatures and wet stamps.

Summary:

"During his lifetime, the path-breaking and prolific lensman Raja Deen Dayal (1884-1905) was one of the most widely recognised photographers from the Indian subcontinent. Today he remains among the most celebrated figures from this earlier era. This book brings together for the first time extensive archival research with close analyses of the significant body of Dayal's work preserved in the Alkazi Collection of Photography. Over the course of his remarkable career, Dayal opened studios in Indore, Secunderabad, and Bombay, employing over fifty staff photographers and assistants. Together, they produced more than 30,000 images of architecture, landscape, and people that have played a central role in how India's past has been visualized. This volume explores varied topics, from Dayal's public works, state visit, and hunting photographs to his images chronicling India's elite and growing middle classes. In this way, lays the groundwork to rethink the history and practice of photography in India: as a commercial business, as an engagement with new technology, and as an aesthetic enterprise"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9788189995768 (Mapin)
8189995766 (Mapin)
9781935677369 (Grantha)
1935677365 (Grantha)

Subject:

Deen Dayal, Raja, 1844-1905.
Photography India History 19th century.
Photographers India Biography.
Photographie Inde Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographes Inde Biographies.
Photographers.
Photography.
India History 19th century.
Inde Histoire 19e siècle.
India.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Deen Dayal, Raja, 1844-1905, photographer.
Hutton, Deborah S., author.

Artist-photographer in 19th-century India

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283169
Call No.: BIB 221204
Status: Available