See It Now: How Photography Helped the British Classify (and Control) People in India
Above: Manure Dryers, Bombay, c1890, attributed to Edward Taurines
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The images on view in the exhibition “Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India, 1855-1920” may seem to a modern viewer to be compelling portraiture made by pioneering artists. But context changes everything, noted The Guardian recently.
“The images …