Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj - Couverture rigide

Khan, Omar

 
9788189995850: Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj
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ISBN 10 : 8189995855 ISBN 13 : 9788189995850
Editeur : Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Postcards were to people in 1900 what the Internet was to the world in 2000. Postcards can be thought of as the world's first mass transfusion of images. The world went from thousand to a billion postcards in a very short span of time, with the finest painters from India, Austria and Japan getting involved. Paper Jewels is the story of postcards during the Raj, and covers India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Burma. It is the first book on the subject and contains some of the most beautiful and popular postcards telling the stories of the first postcard publishers between 1892 and 1947. The essays cover the major cities and regions important to postcard publishing and the key themes - from dancers to religion, to tea, soap, famines, fakirs, humour and warfare. The volume uncovers such gems as the early postcards of the great Indian painter M V Dhurandhar and the Ravi Varma Press, the exceptional work of an early Austrian lithographer in Kolkata and a German one in Mumbai. Many of the images in the book have never been published since their first runs a century ago.

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À propos de l?auteur

Omar Khan grew up in Vienna, Austria, and Islamabad, Pakistan. Khan has researched early photography throughout the subcontinent and is the author of From Kashmir to Kabul: The Photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900 (Mapin). He works as a software executive in San Francisco.

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Postcards were to people in 1900 what the Internet was to the world in 2000. Postcards can be thought of as the world's first mass transfusion of images. The world went from thousand to a billion postcards in a very short span of time, with the finest painters from India, Austria and Japan getting involved. Paper Jewels is the story of postcards during the Raj, and covers India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Burma. It is the first book on the subject and contains some of the most beautiful and popular postcards telling the stories of the first postcard publishers between 1892 and 1947. The essays cover the major cities and regions important to postcard publishing and the key themes - from dancers to religion, to tea, soap, famines, fakirs, humour and warfare. The volume uncovers such gems as the early postcards of the great Indian painter M V Dhurandhar and the Ravi Varma Press, the exceptional work of an early Austrian lithographer in Kolkata and a German one in Mumbai. Many of the images in the book have never been published since their first runs a century ago.

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Éditeur
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
8189995855
ISBN 13 
9788189995850
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
356
Coordonnées du fabricant
Prestel
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Carl-Bertelsmann-Str.270
G?tersloh
33335
Allemagne

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781935677413: Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1935677411 ISBN 13 :  9781935677413
Editeur : Grantha Corporation, 2013
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