Landscapes of Sri Lanka
Subtitle: early photography in Ceylon
By: edited by Raffael Dedo Gadebusch : essays by Raffael Dedo Gadebusch and Joachim K. Bautze ; for the Museum für Asiatische Kunst and the Gesellschaft für Indo-Asiatische Kunst Berlin e.V = Landscapes of Sri Lanka : frühe Fotografie in Ceylon / herausgegeben von Raffael Dedo Gadebusch ; Essays von Raffael Dedo Gadebusch und Joachim K. Bautze ; für das Museum für Asiatische Kunst und die Gesellschaft für Indo-Asiatische Kunst Berlin e.V.
Contributors: Gesellschaft für Indo-Asiatische Kunst (Berlin, Germany); Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Museum für Asiatische Kunst
Publisher: SMB Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Gesellschaft für Indo-Asiatische Kunst Berlin e.V.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9783886097456
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Landscape photography; Exhibitions; Photography; History; Pictorial works
Other titles: Landscapes of Sri Lanka :
Description: Starting in the 1860s, a number of photographic studios established themselves on the island, producing artistically ambitious photographs for an illustrious clientele. Among the most famous photographers from this era were William Louis Henry Skeen, Charles Thomas Scowen, as well as the Hamburg-born photographer Alfred William Amandus Plate, whose studio in the late 19th century expanded into a large-scale commercial enterprise that tried to satisfy the public's hunger for postcard images. The images produced by these photographers played a crucial role in spreading, to the far corners of the British Empire and beyond, the myth of Ceylon as an Arcadia-like tropical island. -- Publisher's blurb.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Kunstsammlungen Süd, Südost- und Zentralasien, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 9 Sept. 2013 to 9 March 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-101).

Text in English and German.