Incredible Vintage Images on Display in London this Summer

    LONDON, ENGLAND, May 21, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- This summer, the V&A Museum in London is launching an India season celebrating some rarely seen cultural offerings from the sub-continent. One key component of this season is a photographic exhibitions showcasing remarkable images from India taken 150 years ago. Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860 runs from 24 June to 11 October. Visitors to the South Kensington museum should also see LondonTown.com for more information on things to do in the area, including fine meals, great pubs and cheap London hotels.

Captain Linnaeus Tripe was a pioneer of photography who created an outstanding body of work depicting the landscape and architecture of India and Burma (now Myanmar) in the 1850s. This major presentation of Tripe's photographs will include more than 60 of his most striking views. This collection includes views of architectural sites and monuments, ancient and contemporary religious and secular buildings, as well as roads, bridges, moats, landscape vistas and geological formations throughout India and Burma. Many of the images are the first photographic records of these sites and the prints on view represent the highlights of Tripe's output.

The exhibition will highlight Tripe's considerable skill at a time when photography was about to undergo rapid change and the practice and recognition was becoming more widely adopted. It will also show his understanding that photography could be used to convey information about unknown cultures and places to the general public. In 1855 Tripe was appointed by the governor-general of India to accompany a mission to Burma to study the area. Here Tripe became the first person to photograph the region's remarkable architecture and landscapes. He then went on to be the first to photograph extensively in south India after his subsequent appointment as photographer to the Madras government. Through this official role Tripe aimed to capture as much of the south Indian region as possible.

Also on display will be a segment of a panoramic scroll showing the inscriptions around the base of the Great Pagoda temple in Tanjore. Composed of more than 20 prints assembled and mounted onto a long canvas scroll, it is now regarded as a considerable technical achievement, given the physical and climatic conditions of the time. For more information about other exhibitions and events in the V&A's India season, see LondonTown.com.

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