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James Waterhouse

James Waterhouse (1842-1922), was an officer in the Royal Artillery and a photographer. He was a president of the internationally know Photographic Department of the survey of India. He learned photography during his training in Addiscombe, near Croydon along with other subjects like mathematics, geology, chemistry, skills required for a military career in the Indian

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Marie Théophile Louis Rousselet

Marie Théophile Louis Rousselet (1845-1929), was a French traveller, writer, Geographer, archaeologist and photographer, who visited India in 1863. Amazed by the diverse richness of the landscapes, art and culture, and people, Rousselet extended his stay in India till 1868. He learnt Photography after reaching India, with a sole purpose to preserve the memory of the monuments

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Josiah Rowe

Josiah Rowe (1809 – 1874) moved to India sometime before 1839 and began making daguerreotypes in the 1840s. Josiah Rowe was hailed as ‘the father of photography in India‘ by Dr F. J. Mouat, a British surgeon, chemist and the first president of the Bengal Photographic Society. Apart from journal entries, there is no evidence

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James Robertson

James Robertson (1813–88), was an English engraver, artist and photographer who was active from 1853 to 1867 in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), Crimea Palestine, Syria, Malta, Cairo and in India. Around 1852, inspired by the French engineer, Industrialist and photographer Ernest de Caranza, he took up photography, and for the next fifteen years devoted considerable time

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