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SUMMARY:The Imperial Aesthetic: Photography\, Samuel Bourne and the Indian
  Peoples in the post-Mutiny era  - Dr Xavier Guégan\, Senior Lecturer in 
 Colonial and Postcolonial History\, University of Winchester
DTSTART:20151029T160000Z
DTEND:20151029T180000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
DESCRIPTION:Samuel Bourne (1834-1912)\, one of the most prestigious Victor
 ian English commercial photographers to have worked in British India\, is 
 best known for his photographs of the Himalayas. Bourne’s work features 
 in general studies of photography of the period\; his representations of t
 he Indian landscape have been the object of studies and several exhibition
 s. Bourne was in India initially from 1863 to 1870 thereby establishing hi
 s career as a professional photographer. Soon after his arrival he started
  a business with the experienced photographer Charles Shepherd. Within a f
 ew years\, the firm of Bourne & Shepherd became recognised as being a dire
 cting influence over British-Indian photography. Their work provides a val
 uable tool to evaluate the Victorian representations of India\, the settin
 g of a colonial mind. This paper focuses on Bourne’s commercial and arti
 stic photographs of the indigenous population\, produced during successive
  field trips he undertook during his seven-year stay in India in the 1860s
  and the portraits taken by his firm in the following decade. We will enga
 ge with the relationship between ethnography and photography\, and reflect
  on the balance between aesthetic and cultural considerations.  We will co
 nsider different fields such as religion\, the caste system\, race theorie
 s\, ethnology\, and gender perspectives in order to understand the relatio
 nship between Bourne’s work\, and more generally imperial photography\, 
 and the making of the Empire in the post-1858 era.
LOCATION:S2 Seminar Room\, Alison Richard Building\, Cambridge\, 7 West Rd
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