Earliest photography course in Asia
Apparently was offered in Madras in 1855! Malavika Karlekar has more details: The army officer, Linnaeus Tripe, gives an interesting and well-documented account of bullock-cart travel during his...
View ArticleWhen to take photographs
Tyler Cowen gives some pointers in a short post which packs lots of punch: If you take photos you will remember the event more vividly, if only because you have to stop and notice it. The fact that...
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At our ancestral home in my village, among the many photographs of relatives distant and near, politicians, gods and goddesses, there hangs a black-and-white photograph. It is the photo of my father’s...
View ArticleThe anthropology of photography
Malaviaka Karlekar writes about family photographs that get displayed, and those that don’t (and, what it tells about the owner/s): The Oxford anthropologist, Elizabeth Edwards, who has worked on the...
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