Contributions

  • Gesellschaft für Indo-Asiatische Kunst (Berlin, Germany) - Contributor
  • Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Museum für Asiatische Kunst - Contributor

Publication

2013 - SMB Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Language

English

Word Count

26,000 words, Guess

Page Count

104 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC770
  • LCCTR660.5 .L36x 2013

Alternate 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.

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