Bøger af John Falconer

I starten af 1850’erne var fotografiet slået igennem i kolonitidens Indien. Med sin storslåede arkitektur, de eksotiske landskaber og de mange forskellige folkeslag og kulturer bød landet på fantastiske fotomotiver. I denne prægtige fotobog, som samtidig er katalog til en udstilling på Davids Samling, har forfatteren samlet fotos af primært engelske, men også enkelte indiske fotografer. Den indiske arkitektur med dDen indiske arkitektur med de prægtige mogulske og islamiske pa-ladser og gravmæler er rigt repræsenteret – Taj Mahal er også med – og der er portrætter af prinser, maharajaer, ministre og krigere i al deres pragt. Men der er også fotos af de typisk indiske håndværkere – sten- og træskærere, tømrere og farvere, og det daglige liv er skildret med elefanter, der bader i Ganges, høhøst og havearbejde, optræ-dende akrobater, slangetæmmere, dansere og musikere og religiøse optog.Bogen indledes med et kort essay om fotografiets udvikling fra daguerreotypien, der kun gav et enkelt billede, over kalotypiet og papirnegativet, der gav mulighed for at lave mange kopier, og til den våde kollodiumproces med glasnegativ og et ubegrænset antal kopier i langt bedre kvalitet.

A Series of Tables and Diagrams Illustrating Economy in Cutting - Being Economical Methods for Cutting out Garments is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Cryptomenysis patefacta; - Or, The art of secret information disclosed without a key. Containing, plain and demonstrative rules, for decyphering all manner of secret writing is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1685.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

‘Under Indian Skies’ is the book behind the forthcoming exhibition of the same name, which opens at The David Collection on November 23rd 2018. The book — and the exhibition — offer a previously unknown, first-hand impression of 19th-century India, as seen through the eyes of primarily Western photographers. At the beginning of the 1850s photography made its breakthrough in colonial India. With its impressive architecture, exotic landscapes and many different ethnic groups and cultures, the country offered fantastic motifs. The Indian architecture with its magnificent Islamic palaces and mausolea. Princes, maharajas, ministers and soldiers in all of their splendour. But also ordinary people and daily life: stone-cutters and woodcarvers, carpenters and dyers, daily life with the elephants that bathe in the Ganges, cotton harvesters and gardeners, acrobats, snake charmers, dancers, musicians and religious processions.“Under Indian Skies” presents a riveting, kaleidoscopic picture of an India that for the most part has disappeared today. Some monuments are still standing and one might still see similar scenes there, but the present infrastructure and political circumstances are completely different to that time. In addition to the presentation of eighty-three selected photographs, the book contains two essays, on the history of photography in India and early photographic processes respectively.John Falconer is a British historian of photography, who for many years was responsible for the photography collection at the British Library’s Indian and Oriental departments. He has written many books on early Indian photography and is one of the world’s leading specialists in this area.