Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/06/2013 - 03/09/2014
12:00 AM
Location
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm
The exhibition will look at the first photography in India and its commercial followers, with a superb selection of negatives and vintage prints, shown for the first time in Europe.
The first part of the show will be dedicated to the original wax negatives by Alexander Greenlaw; unique shots of the South-Indian Vijayanagara site, taken around 1855-1856. Around the same period, Scottish doctor John Murray was based near Agra with his regiment of the British East India Company. Murray’s predilection for the photographic medium resulted in an astonishing series of photos of the Taj Mahal; the first ever made of the iconic Mughal monument. The third part will show how commercial photography took over from the first pioneers. Publications and postcards start to spread photos of India’s architectural monuments, landscapes and cities.
Curators: Rahaab Allana, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts (New Delhi) and Davy Depelchin, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Organisation: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, ICCR, Europalia International
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