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Landscapes of Sri Lanka - Early Photography in Ceylon. From the mid-19th century on, Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, was an exotic destination that many a world traveller yearned to visit.

Starting in the 1860s, a number of photographic studios established themselves on the island, producing…

Beelden van een vergeten ontmoeting. De Belgische missie in India, 1850-1950. (Images of a forgotten meeting. Belgian missionaries in India, 1850-1950).  KADOC presents its archive of 150 years of Belgian presence in India. This collection not only includes traditional archive materials (letters, notes...), but also photographs and films. Together, they form a…

Dawn of Japanese photography[II]. Tokyo 2011. Soft Cover 21 x 30 cm. 89 pages. with 30 images of which 20 are photographs. A series of articles, the lead article:'Photography and the Prusian Expedition to Japan 1860-1861', both in English and Japanese [pages 22 to 66]. Pages 3 to 22 photography pages. Pages 66 to 89 2 smaller articles only in…

RAYNER, H. (with additonal notes by C. Worswick), Views in Kulu & Spiti Frith's Photo-Pictures - India series, Bath 2011. Soft cover[oblong] 21 x 30 cm. XVII & 48pages 45 photographs. ISBN 9781904289777.

" This book contains the entire Francis Frith & Co. 'Universal Series' of photographs of Kulu and Spiti that were made during late 1869 or early…