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Photography was introduced in India by the British in the early 19th century. [1] The concept of photography spread to India at a fast pace after the invention, introduction, and publicization of the daguerreotype technology in 1839. [2] By 1840, advertisements in Calcutta by Thacker, Spink, & Co. for imported cameras started appearing in a ...
India has the sixth-most sites worldwide. The first sites to be listed were the Ajanta Caves, Ellora Caves, Agra Fort, and Taj Mahal, all of which were inscribed in the 1983 session of the World Heritage Committee. The most recent site listed is the Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty, in 2024. [3]
The Kupgal petroglyphs are works of rock art found at Kupgal in Bellary district of Karnataka, India. Thousands of petroglyphs have been found at Kupgal, which date to the neolithic or even the old stone age. The site, which includes examples of rock gongs, was discovered first in 1892, but subsequently became lost to researchers until it was ...
Dayanita Singh (born 18 March 1961) [1] is an Indian photographer whose primary format is the book. She has published fourteen books. Singh's art reflects and expands on the ways in which people relate to photographic images. Her later works, drawn from her extensive photographic oeuvre, are a series of mobile museums allowing her images to be endlessly edited,
The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) is the premier art gallery under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. [1] The main museum at Jaipur House in New Delhi was established on 29 March 1954 by the Government of India, with subsequent branches at Mumbai and Bangalore. Its collection of more than 17,000 works by 2000 plus artists [2 ...
22°32′42″N88°20′33″E22.5449°N 88.3425°E. The Victoria Memorial is a large marble monument on the Maidan in Central Kolkata, having its entrance on the Queen's Way. It was built between 1906 and 1921 by the Government of India. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria, the Empress of India from 1876 to 1901.
India Photo Archive Foundation. The India Photo Archive Foundation is a Public Charitable Trust engaged in digitising, annotating, and preserving photographic archives. [1] This came out as a result of Aditya Arya Archive by Aditya Arya, a photographer in India. The Foundation has been active since 2009.
Nationality. Indian. Occupation (s) photographer, photojournalist. Years active. 1965 – present. Raghu Rai (born 1942) is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. [1][2] He was a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who nominated Rai, then a young photojournalist, to join Magnum Photos in 1977. Rai became a photographer in the mid 1960s ...