John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Commercial, India
5 Waterloo Place, Calcutta in 1863 and at 10 Mangoe Lane in 1864. Advertising his ‘Laboratory of Practical Photography’ at 12 Wellington Square East, Calcutta in 1869.[1] In the same issue of the Journal of the Bengal Photographic Society in which this advertisement appears he also contributes a letter on the fading of photographs.
At the 1863 exhibition of the Bengal Photographic Society, ‘G. Berger exhibits some good portraits; Nos. 206, 207, 214, 217, and 224, we have marked as particularly good, but he has scarcely done justice to their mounting. His frame of carte-de-portraits [sic] shews that he has many sitters.[2]
Footnotes
- Λ Journal of the Bengal Photographic Society, new series, vol.2, no.1, Mar 1869.
- Λ Journal of the Bengal Photographic Society, vol. 2, no. 7, March 1864, p. 83.
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