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

Roger Taylor; Crispin Branfoot; Sarah Greenough

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3791353810 ISBN 13: 9783791353814

Publisher: Prestel, 2014

Synopsis

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 recognized 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 rigour 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. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Review:

A sumptuous collection of works by 19th-century photographer Linnaeus Tripe. --Royal Photographic Society Journal, 1st November 2014

...he [Linnaeus Tripe] captured haunting images of sacred sites, landscapes and geology. --The Sunday Telegraph, 21st June 2015

About the 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, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3791353810
• ISBN 13: 9783791353814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224