SAMUEL BOURNE RETURNS TO LUCKNOW

SAMUEL BOURNE

Samuel Bourne, Lucknow, c. 1865

RETURNS TO LUCKNOW

Weekly transmission 38-2018 presents: Samuel Bourne, Prolific British Photographer Exhibition at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow Eighteen Samuel Bourne albumen prints Previous transmissions can be found at:

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“Samuel Bourne was a British photographer who spent seven extremely productive years in India, and by the time he returned to England in January 1871, he had made approximately 2,200 fine images of the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayas. Working primarily with a 10x12 inch plate camera, and using the complicated and laborious Wet Plate Collodion process, the impressive body of work he produced was always of superb technical quality and often of artistic brilliance.[citation needed] His ability to create superb photographs whilst travelling in the remotest areas of the Himalayas... with a retinue of some 30 porters to carry his equipment, and working under the most exacting physical conditions, places him firmly amongst the very finest of nineteenth century travel photographers.” (Wikipedia).

The e-bulletins present articles as well as selections of books, albums, photographs and documents as they have been handed down to the actual owners by their creators and by amateurs from past generations.

The prints are part of a current exhibition at the IIM, Lucknow, curated by Adrienne Plantureux.

N°38-2018. SAMUEL BOURNE

The Exhibition hall in the India Institute of Maanagement, yesterday morning

Samuel Bourne returns to Lucknow

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The Exhibition hall in the India Institute of Maanagement, today

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Exhibition at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

“IIM Lucknow main campus spans 200 acres (81 ha) and is in Prabandh Nagar on the outskirts of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is at 21 kilometres from Lucknow railway station and 31 kilometres from Lucknow Airport. IIM-Lucknow also has a city office at Aliganj.

The academic buildings are constructed in medieval Indian architectural style with red brick wall texture.

As a part of student exchange programs, students spend a three-month term in a foreign university in October to December in their second year. Every year around 50 students of IIM Lucknow are selected for the exchange programs based on merit, while around 30 foreign students come to IIM Lucknow, [for example from EM-Lyon, as the curator of the present Bourne exhibition].� (Wikipedia).

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). View from the Hoosenabad Imambara, Lucknow, 1865 Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Bara Imambara, Lucknow, c. 1865

Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Palm Tree Study, Lucknow, c. 1865

Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative Another print in Rijskmuseum collection, Amsterdam.

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). View of the Taj Mahal from the Yamuna river, 1863 Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative, on original mount with French traveler caption, ink.

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Taj Mahal, Mumtaz Mahal Tomb, c. 1863

Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Vishnu-Pud Temple, Burning Ghat, Benares, c. 1863 Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Manikarnika Ghat (burning ghat), Varanasi, 1863 Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Benares Ghats, from Aurungzebe Mosque, c. 1863 Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Prince Etimad-ud tomb, Agra, c. 1863

Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Panorama of Old Delhi, c. 1865

Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Feroz Shah Kotla, Firozabad, Old Delhi, c. 1863 Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Panorama of Bharatpore, from the fort, c. 1863 Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Brahma temple in Gwalior fort, c. 1863

Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Borah Bazaar, Bombey, c. 1869

Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne. Elephants of the Viceroy, Sir John Lawrence, c. 1866

Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). View from Shaheed Minar, Calcutta, c. 1866 Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Great Banyan, Barrackpore park, Calcutta, c. 1866 Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

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Samuel Bourne (1834–1912). Bridge over the Rungnoo, Darjeeling, c. 1866 Albumen print from collodion on glass negative, c. 230x285 mm, signed and numbered in negative

"For my part, I may say that before I commenced photography I did not see half the beauties in nature that I do now, and the glory and power of a precious landscape has often passed before me and left but a feeble impression on my untutored mind; but it will never be so again�

Samuel Bourne, 1880

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