The Full Feature: The Lafayette Studio and Princely India, , Russell Harris, Roli Books Pvt. Ltd., 8174363599

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The Full Feature: The Lafayette Studio and Princely India

Russell Harris (Author)

Synopsis 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 and pageantry that laced the great state occasions of this period. In these images, M. Lafayette (Late of Paris) of Bond Street, presents the Maharajas, Maharanis and Nawabs as they wished to be remembered by posterity.

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About the author

Russell Harris

Russell Harris studied Oriental Studies at Balliol College, Oxford. He has translated novels and political works from French and Arabic and written for many scholarly publications on Middle Eastern affairs and food history. In recent years he has collaborated with the National Portrait Gallery. London to showcase displays of images from their archives. The results of his research on the Lafayette Negative Archive, held by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London have been shown in photographic exhibitions in Pakistan, India, Romania, Britain and Austria.

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