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Picturesque Views: Mughal India in Nineteenth-Century Photography

Categorie	Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer	#332147-AE6
Titel	Picturesque Views: Mughal India in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Auteur	Gadebusch, Raffael Dedo (editor)
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	3775721231
ISBN13	9783775721233
Taal	Duits
Beschrijving	Original pictorial boards, illustrated with numerous (full page) b/w photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting	Picturesque Views presents a selection of 69 masterpieces by the most important photographers of nineteenth-century India. Felice Beato, Thomas Biggs, Samuel Bourne, and John Murray, among other great figures from the pioneering age of photography, are represented with exemplary works. In addition to the impressive prints, the book contains large-format waxed paper negatives, which were painstakingly retouched with gouache, as well as examples of stereoscopic photography popular at the lime. European photographers paid special attention to the architecture and guldens of the Mughals, and this publication includes sinking views of the Taj Mahal, the famous monument in Agra, and its surroundings. Photographs from the Kashmir Valley - the erstwhile summer retreat of the Great Mughals - and fa... (Lees verder)scinating, often shocking images of the city of Lucknow succeed in bringing the reader closer to the nineteenth century India of the Mughals.
Pagina's	127
Conditie	Goed — Corners slightly bumped.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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