Tuesday, February 4, 2014

First photographic studio in India


'The first photographs may have been taken in India during the second Sikh War (1848-49), while a photographic studio was opened in Calcutta in 1849 by F. Schranzhofer, and a daguerreotype studio in Bombay in 1850 by Augustus G. Roussac (British Library)' ..................(Source: The Times of India, November 25, 2013)

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