Dr. John Murray
Although trained as a medical doctor, Dr. John Murray excelled as a photographer. The Scottish-born doctor was introduced to photography around 1849, while in the Medical Service of the Army of the East India Company. Stationed near the Taj Mahal in Agra, he evidently developed a considerable interest in the Mughal architecture of the region. Throughout the forty-year period that Murray lived and worked in India, he systematically recorded many famous buildings in and around Agra and the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
In the mid-1800s, no simple method of enlarging photographs existed. To make a sizable print, Murray worked with a large-format wooden camera capable of accepting negatives up to 16 by 20 inches. He worked with both glass and waxed-paper negatives; traveling photographers and those in remote places found the waxed-paper negatives particularly useful because the paper did not require immediate development. With this unwieldy equipment, Murray produced a body of work documenting India's architecture that remained unsurpassed in the 1800s.
Dates: 1809 - 1898 Role(s): Photographer Nationality: British Born: Aberdeenshire, Scotland Died: Sheringham, England
Quelle: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/103KD7 ; http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500029341
Militärkamerad und Kollege von John McCosh
Photograph entitled, "The Well and Monument, Slaughter House, Cawnpore" Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, taken in 1858. From 'Murray Collection: Views in Delhi, Cawnpore, Allahabad and Benares' taken by Dr. John Murray. Picture shows the Bibigurh house in which European women and children were killed and the well where their bodies were found. Datum 1858 Quelle From 'Murray Collection: Views in Delhi, Cawnpore, Allahabad and Benares' taken by Dr. John Murray. Urheber Dr. John Murray
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