Clerk and assistant in the Uncovenanted Civil Service in Bombay (1848-1861). From 1852-1854 he had a Daguerreotype studio in Bombay and a photographic studio that ran until the late 1860s. In 1854 he was a founding member and secretary of the Bombay Photographic Society and editor of its journal. In collaboration with William Henderson he produced The Indian Amateurs Photographic Album (1856-1858) which included three original prints with each issue. On his return to England he published The Oriental Races and Tribes, Residents and Visitors of Bombay (2 Vols, London, 1863 - 1865) which was the earliest ethnographical work published in India to include photographs.
William J. Johnson
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