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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Captain Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902) occupies a special place in the history of nineteenth-century photography for the outstanding body of work he produced in India and Burma (now Myanmar) in the 1850s. Introduced to photography by those who saw it as a pastime he recognized that it could be an effective tool for conveying information about unknown cultures. Under the auspices of the East India Company he took many photographs of archaeological sites and monuments ancient and contemporary religious and secular buildings as well as geological formations and landscape vistas not seen before in the West. His military training gave his work a striking aesthetic and formal rigor and helped him achieve remarkably consistent results despite the challenges that India’s heat and humidity posed to photographic chemistry. This sumptuous volume features several of Tripe’s early photographs taken in England as well as selections from portfolios made on his two major expeditions: to Burma in 1855 and to southeast India in 1857-1858. Essays explore the evolution of his practice and the importance of the sites he recorded; maps and a chronology provide an overview of his life and travels: and a description of Tripe’s printing techniques sheds light on a transitional moment in the development of photographic processes. (OS)