The Full Feature: The Lafayette Studio and Princely India
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8174363599
Length
96p., Plates; 22cm.
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The negative archive of the Lafayette Photography Studio, discovered in 1968 and now held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, reveals a panoply of Indian rulers who made the arduous trip to the heart of the Empire and were photographed heavily bejewelled and in exotic finery--the courts of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII expected no less of them. The immaculately preserved negatives in this collection reconstruct a vanished history of opulence, grandeur ...
