Raja Deen Dayal
Subtitle: artist-photographer in 19th-century India
By: Deepali Dawan and Deborah Hutton
Contributors: Hutton, Deborah
Publisher: Alkazi Collection of Photography in association with Mapin Pub., Ahmedabad
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9788189995768; 9781935677369
Subjects: Photography; History
Description: "During his lifetime, the path-breaking and prolific lensman Raja Deen Dayal (1884-1905) was one of the most widely recognised photographers from the Indian subcontinent. Today he remains among the most celebrated figures from this earlier era. This book brings together for the first time extensive archival research with close analyses of the significant body of Dayal's work preserved in the Alkazi Collection of Photography. Over the course of his remarkable career, Dayal opened studios in Indore, Secunderabad, and Bombay, employing over fifty staff photographers and assistants. Together, they produced more than 30,000 images of architecture, landscape, and people that have played a central role in how India's past has been visualized. This volume explores varied topics, from Dayal's public works, state visit, and hunting photographs to his images chronicling India's elite and growing middle classes. In this way, lays the groundwork to rethink the history and practice of photography in India: as a commercial business, as an engagement with new technology, and as an aesthetic enterprise"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the United States of America in 2013 by Grantha Corporation ... "--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-230).
Table of contents: title: Public works and princely states / Deepali Dewan; title: Views of the Nazam's dominions / Deborah Hutton; title: Royal and viceregal encounters / Deepali Dewan; title: Images of the hunt / Deborah Hutton; title: Elite life in Hyderabad and Secunderabad / Deborah Hutton; title: Interiors and interiority / Deepali Dewan; title: Appendices. Timeline ; Dating ; Signatures and wet stamps.