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Veins Of Influence : Colonial Sri lanka ( Ceylon ) In Early Photographs And Collections
Author Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra
ISBN 9786246335441
Publisher NEPTUNE PUBLICATIONS
Pages 252
Size 23 x 33 x 3 CM
Weight 1340
Our Price Rs. 13,500.00
The use of photography as a scientific and commercial tool was well established in Ceylon by the end of the 19th Century. The camera was used in archaeology, astronomy, anthropology, agriculture, engineering and industry between 1860 and 1880, [1] as well as in commercial studio practise. However, photographs of colonial Ceylon were and remain much fewer than those documenting its favoured colonial neighbour, the Jewel in the Crown, India. In India, photography had been officially and extensively employed, supported with funding, since the early 1860s. In contrast, there is little evidence that this more scientific application of the medium was widely employed in Ceylon



 

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