Imaging the Isle across cintage photography from Ceylon

Matthan, Ayesha et al.

The history of photography in South Asia is a story of itinerant practitioners, seeking to expand the eye of the lens by exposure to the farthest corners of the world.Though Ceylon came under British rule only in 1815, it followed the maritime expansion of the Portuguese, the Dutch, Danes and the French--the first of which identified it in their sea-charts as Zeilon, from which the modern name ...

Publisher: National Museum

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