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Painted Photographs of India
Painted photographs, an art genre from the nineteenth century, are a product of the artistic collaboration between photographers and traditional Indian artists, especially portraitists. As the name suggests, it literally means painting a finished photograph by manually adding layers of colors to an otherwise monochromatic photograph. To make photographs as realistic as possible, Swiss painter…
Pictorialism – A Forgotten Movement in Photography
Pictorialism is an international aesthetic movement in photography that began in the late 19th century in Europe. It approached the camera as a tool to create an aesthetic value of a photograph at par with the other forms of artistic expression. The movement brought forth many of the artistic elements of Romanticism like; soft focus,…
Company School – A Visual Repository of the Past
“A virtual repository of the bygone era, each folio representing the subject with historical accuracy, woven with European naturalism and Indian stylization.” The early 18th century remains consequential to Indian history as it embarks on yet another wave of change in the Indian art and the history of India at large. This new change happened…
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