Samuel Bourne
2004
Book cover for "Photographic Journeys in the Himalayas - Samuel Bourne" edited by Hugh Rayner.

Book cover
India & The Orient
Courtesy of Hugh Ashley Rayner
 
Comprising the complete texts of four series of letters to the British Journal of Photography, published between July 1st.1863 and April 1st 1870; documenting the 3 Himalayan photographic expeditions in Kashmir, Kulu, Spiti & Lahoul, undertaken by Samuel Bourne, perhaps the most talented & influential travel photographer active in India in the nineteenth century. Now published in a revised and enlarged edition, with 2 additional appendices, containing a Catalogue Index of almost the entire body of some 2,200 photographs, taken by Bourne in India, together with the text of his 1860 lecture 'On Some of the Requisites Necessary for the Production of a Good Photograph'. Compiled & edited, with an introduction, by Hugh Rayner.
 
The book can be purchased directly from Pagoda Tree Press, 4 Malvern Buildings, Fairfield Park, Bath BA1 6JX. England. (0044 1225 463552 - enquiries@pagodatreepress.com - www.pagodatreepress.com) (UK Price é24.00 inclusive of UK postage)
 
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