Procedente de la National Gallery se abre en el Museo Victoria y Alberto de Londres una buena exposición de fotografía centrada en una zona geográfica India y Burma entre 1852 y 1860.
Son fotografías, muchas de ellas, de arquitectura.
El museo Victoria y Alberto tiene, cuando presenta sus exposiciones, gran documentación sobre diferentes apartados de la misma que la explican de un modo muy didáctico.
He made his first photographs of India on leave from his regiment in
Hullebede and Belloor in Mysore, south India, in December that year.
Tripe prepared 68 photographs of previously unphotographed temples from
his trip for the 'Madras Exhibition of Raw Products, Arts, and
Manufactures of Southern India', which opened in February 1855. The jury
stated his work to be the 'best series of photographic views on paper
Pero, sobre todo, merece la pena leer sus métodos de trabajo.
Tripe declined the silver medal amicably, since he considered that as an
official photographer he had an unfair advantage over the other
entrants. Tripe's photographs were valued for their informational value
and their technical quality. The adjudicating committee stated that
Tripe's photographs 'illustrate admirably the architecture of the Hindoo
Temples and Places of Southern India
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